KMT Legislator Tsao Erh-chang (曹爾忠) said the DPP was holding the rally to protest against the “incompetent” government when “former president Chen is the most incompetent of them all,” over which he said Tsai had “feigned ignorance.”
In related news, the Executive Yuan yesterday announced it would kickstart a series of Made-in-Taiwan exhibits with the Council of Agriculture’s (COA) “Come and Buy Our Agricultural Goods” fair in Taipei today.
The agricultural fair, the first of several exhibitions, opens today in Taipei’s former Songshan Tobacco Plant and will last until tomorrow.
The Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper) yesterday reported that the decision to hold the fair had not been made until Monday, sparking speculation that the Executive Yuan may be using the event to counter the effects of today’s anti-Ma parade.
Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) said on Thursday that, starting this weekend, the Executive Yuan would host an event each week promoting Taiwanese-made products.
Although the COA hosts a farmer’s market every weekend at the city’s Hope Plaza (希望廣場), the Liberty Times reported that the council received instructions from the Executive Yuan to expand the event this weekend.
COA Deputy Minister Huang Yu-tsai (黃有才) rejected media speculation that the event may have been planned to counter the anti-Ma parade.
“This event is to promote agricultural goods in Taiwan and has nothing to do with politics,” he said.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY FLORA WANG AND MEGGIE LU
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