Ker, meanwhile, said "the budget cut was made after both sides had bargained," and the DPP, as a minority party, had to make concessions since it could not win the final vote.
Giving full support to his fellow DPP legislators, DPP Chairman Frank Hsieh (
Hsieh, speaking at a press conference, also shrugged off the KMT's new ads, saying that "the KMT has, in its ads, admitted that it cut the Cabinet's budget of NT$13.1 billion" [as the DPP's ads previously argued].
Hsieh reiterated that the Cabinet presented the legislature with six written and two verbal reports before the NT$19.4 billion budget's review. However, during the legislature's past 10 committee meetings, opposition lawmakers failed to complete the budget's passage, he added.
Hsieh urged opposition lawmakers to hold fair discussions on budget review in the future. The DPP chairman said the KMT should produce concrete evidence if it has concerns about how the DPP has handled the budget process rather than boycott the budget irrationally.
"We therefore hope that, following the ad's airing and monitoring, legislators' performance will be greatly improved," Hsieh added.
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