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Premier pushes Cabinet

Premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) yesterday asked the Cabinet to come up with policy proposals every month and realize 10 of them every year despite pan-blue-camp hostility in the legislature.

"Our proposals and budgets might be pending at the legislature but that does not mean we can sit back here and do nothing," Hsieh said.

Hsieh delivered the pep talk before the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday morning. He encouraged government officials who wanted to serve the public to move forward instead of complaining about the legislative gridlock.

Hsieh said that complaining about the legislature or arguing with lawmakers would not help.

He said that ministers could think of ways to advance the public interest within existing laws regardless of legislative obstruction.

"The problems remain even if you gain from the bickering," he said.

Hsieh warned that the number of proposals receiving legislative approval was decreasing and that this would become a problem given public expectations that the nation should make progress each day. Legislation might be postponed, but the government could not afford to stop moving forward, he said.

Hsieh said he understood that many lawmakers were doing their best to solve the problem. But these lawmakers were not in the majority, he said, while those who had decided to take advantage of their power for political purposes were.
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