Chen spurns recall drive

Tseng said the KMT would not allow the NT$6.2 billion (US$193 million) arms bill to pass through the procedural committee unless its pre-decessor, a bill requesting a NT$480 billion package, is withdrawn.

With regard to the bill pertaining to nominations for the Control Yuan, which has been sidelined since the term of the body's previous members expired in January last year, Tseng said the party would not consider it unless the president came up with new candidates.

Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Liu Shih-fang (劉世芳) said yesterday that President Chen would not reconsider his nominations for the Control Yuan until the pan-blue alliance reached a consensus on the threshold required for the legislature's consent of the nominees.