Lin said he was a national adviser to the president, not an adviser to the KMT.
“If a government’s behavior is not in the interest of its people, why should the people not criticize it?” Lin told reporters yesterday.
Presidential Office spokesman Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) said the office respected Lin’s decision to resign from his unpaid post.
Meanwhile, a poll released by Global Views (遠見雜誌) magazine yesterday showed more than 78 percent of respondents said the administration had done a poor job in handling the typhoon, and a majority said a Cabinet reshuffle was necessary.
The poll by the Global Views Survey Research Center found that 78.2 percent of the respondents gave the administration’s crisis management ability a failing grade, with 42.8 percent saying Liu must be replaced, while 58.2 percent said a reshuffle was needed, a 12.4 percent increase compared with a similar poll last September.
UNPOPULAR
Ma’s popularity fell to 22.9 percent, which the pollster said signified a loss of 1.33 million of those who voted for him in last year’s presidential election.
The premier’s popularity dropped to 18.8 percent, while the Cabinet’s approval rating fell to 16.7 percent, both all-time lows since the KMT returned to power last year.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SHIH HSIU-CHUAN AND CNA
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