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Su set to address legislature on Tuesday

Overcoming initial resistance from the pan-blue camp, the legislature's Procedure Committee yesterday put an address by Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on the agenda for Tuesday's opening session.

But People First Party (PFP) legislators, who initially planned to boycott Su's report, asked him to come up with strategies to counter corruption.

They also demanded that Su give an analysis of the impact of the protests aimed at ousting President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).

Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers suggested putting on the agenda two long-stalled bills, the budget for the US arms package and a bill for reviewing the president's nominee for state public prosecutor-general. Both were rejected by the pan-blue camp.

Meanwhile, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Joanna Lei (雷倩) put on the agenda an amendment to the Assembly and Parade Law (集會遊行法) to relax regulations governing demonstrations.

Lei suggested in the amendment that people should have no duty to gain government approval before staging a demonstration.

Meanwhile, Minister of National Defense Lee Jye (李傑) met with a group of KMT legislators yesterday to once again seek their support for the arms bill.
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