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Pan-blues accused of politicking

Pan-blue legislators yesterday clap their hands on hearing that their campaign to recall the president would top the agenda for the special legislative session that will run from today to the end of the month. PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES

The Cabinet yesterday accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party (PFP) of putting politics before public interest by making a bid to recall the president their top priority.

"Premier Su Tseng-chang [蘇貞昌] has expressed his regret [about prioritizing the recall campaign.] This is not what he expected [of them]," Government Information Office Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Cheng Wen-tsang (鄭文燦) said on Su's behalf yesterday when approached for the premier's comments about the legislature's decision to prioritize the proposal of impeaching President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) at its extraordinary session, which is to run from today through June 30.

"We are sorry to see that the KMT and PFP legislators are so concerned about themselves and their own future that they would pick the wrong issue to prioritize," Cheng said.

The Cabinet spokesman said that extraordinary legislative sessions have for the past six years offered lawmakers a valuable opportunity to finalize important proposals.

Cheng said the premier hoped that lawmakers would rather focus on issues of public concern or proposals related to the economy.

The Cabinet did not expect lawmakers to waste time during the extraordinary session to discuss the impeachment proposal, he said.

"The impeachment proposal may not even be sustained, while infrastructure construction work cannot be interrupted and flood-control projects cannot be postponed," Cheng said.
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