Hu gave the assurance at a question-and-answer session of the Taichung city council when Councilor Chang Liao Wang-Chien said he was puzzled to see Hu named as vice premier on a list of shadow Cabinet members on the official Web site of Ma Ying-jeou, the presidential candidate of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT).

Dismissing the list as “unfounded hearsay,” Hu said no-one has ever talked with him about such an appointment, and that even if an offer is made, he will not accept it.

On Nov. 17, the Taichung mayor, deemed a “rising star” in Taiwan’s political arena, shocked political circles when he declared in a TV interview that he will retire from political life at the end of his second mayoral term.

He said he will devote the rest of his life to the care of his wife, Shirley Shao, who lost her left arm in a traffic accident a year ago and is still undergoing rehabilitation.

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