A senior KMT member yesterday called on his party's chairman and presidential candidate Lien Chan (
Tsai Pi-chan (蔡碧詹), a member of the KMT's Central Review Committee, said Lien should pick someone such as KMT vice chairman and legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) as his running mate.
Tsai made the unexpected remarks during the KMT's National Party Congress yesterday, shocking the roomful of KMT members attending the meeting.
He said that the Chung Hsing Bills Finance case, in which Soong was implicated, had contributed to the nation's present chaos.
The scandal first surfaced in December 1999 when then KMT legislator Yang Chi-hsiung (楊吉雄) accused Soong of irregular transactions involving hundreds of millions of NT dollars of the party's money during Soong's tenure as the party's secretary-general and while he was Taiwan provincial governor.
The case was used by the KMT to attack Soong in the 2000 presidential election, when Soong was running his own campaign against Lien.
The KMT dropped its claims against Soong in February in a move political observers said was a goodwill gesture to Soong to pave the way for cooperation between the KMT and the PFP in next year's presidential election.
"Lien should instead pair with Taiwan-born talents such as Wang and further the party's pro-localization approach," said Tsai, who is from Changhua County.
Tsai also suggested that the PFP should be dissolved.
Before Tsai had a chance to finish his remarks, he was pulled aside by another KMT member and escorted out of the meeting by a number of committee members.
When asked to comment on Tsai's remarks, KMT Secretary-General Lin Fong-cheng (
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