Vowing to uphold a promise to push through a constitutional reform package, the Chinese National Party (KMT) yesterday began the first meeting of the National Assembly with an announcement that made all its assembly members "party delegates."
Party delegates can attend an August national party congress where elections for the party's top policy-making body, the Central Standing Committee, will be held.
"I would like to represent the party central and welcome all [the KMT's] National Assembly members to become party delegates," KMT Chairman Lien Chan (
Praising the delegates for taking on the historical burden of carrying through the people's will in regard to the constitutional reforms, Lien criticized the parties and factions that are rallying against the constitutional reforms package.
"The eyes of all the nation's people are open. Everyone will be able to see which parties are acting in their own self-interest and which are acting on behalf of the people," Lien said.
Lien met with the National Assembly delegates to give them his encouragement and to ensure that none stray from the party's promise to support the constitutional reforms.
Lien's announcement came after the KMT's Central Standing Committee passed a proposal to make the party's 117 National Assembly members party delegates during a meeting held last Wednesday.
The delegates' election is slated for July 16, the day of the KMT chairmanship elections.
Some 1 million KMT members nationwide will elect 1,105 KMT delegates. In addition to the elected delegates, the KMT's chairman also has the power to appoint up to 600 delegates.
The KMT is scheduled to convene a national congress from Aug. 19 to Aug. 20, during which 210 of the delegates will be elected to the party's Central Committee.
Of the 210 new Central Committee members, 31 will be elected to the party's top policymaking body, the Central Standing Committee.
Among those running to become a party delegate is Lien's son, Sean Lien (
As he signed up Sean Lien said only that he was pleased to be able to run along with so many other excellent candidates.
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