KMT Legislator Yu Yueh-hsia (游月霞) threatened to resign yesterday as fellow lawmakers approved a proposal to turn her over to the Discipline Committee for an outburst against Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
The proposal, signed by more than 60 legislators from across party lines, was passed with no objections.
While Yu was unavailable for comment yesterday after being hounded by the media on Monday, reporters heard her tell KMT legislative leader Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻) in a telephone conversation she would quit the KMT if she was turned over to the Discipline Committee.
"If the KMT wants to apologize, go ahead but I will not [apologize,]" Yu was heard saying on the speakerphone minutes before the legislature approved the proposal.
"I will quit my party membership and quit my role in the political arena if the KMT's legislative caucus agrees to turn me over to the Discipline Committee," she said.
It is not the first time the 43-year-old Yu has threatened to quit the party. She warned she would ditch her post in January after claiming to be unsatisfied with KMT efforts to lobby for a draft bill governing tax affairs.
Citing Yu's onslaught as a humiliation to female Cabinet member, yesterday's proposal was initiated by the DPP's legislative caucus.
Upset over the government's apparent intransigence in establishing direct links with China, Yu last Friday lashed out at Tsai in the legislature, calling the shocked chairwoman a "spinster with psychological problems."
Yu's comments brought immediate protest from lawmakers from all parties, who criticized Yu for using foul and sexually suggestive language to humiliate a government official.
The KMT's legislative caucus on Monday apologized to Tsai on behalf of Yu although Yu herself refused a request from the party to apologize.
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