Scheme to oust Chen backfires on Ma

OLD SLIPPERY KMT Legislator Lin Yu-fang urged Ma not to be `Teflon coated' in the campaign to unseat the president as trying to stay clean would not win him any friends

By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Mo Yan-chih / STAFF REPORTERS

In other news, Minister of National Defense Lee Jye (李傑) held a meeting with senior media staff last night, during which he said that Ma had "sent word to him" that the KMT would not block the long delayed special arms procurement budget from being reviewed in the next legislative session.

Additional reporting by Shih Hsiu-chuan

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