Former president Lee Teng-hui (
Lee also said that he expected Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (
Lee made the comments on the campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) at a Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) forum on policymaking yesterday.
Likening the confrontation between members of the anti-Chen campaign launched by former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Shih Ming-teh (施明德) and members of the pro-Chen rally on Saturday to a "civil war over democracy," Lee said that taking to the streets or holding rallies will not solve the problems that have been tormenting the country.
He said he did not think the judiciary could settle the dispute or stabilize the political situation.
"The Legislative Yuan is the key to solving the current problems," Lee said.
"How to lead the Legislative Yuan in the right direction is significant," he added.
"In addition to establishing a sound system of law and order, I think having the right person in the right place is of the utmost importance," Lee said.
Lee then said that the biggest problem was that the Cabinet and the Legislative Yuan were unable to work with each other.
"That is the reason why Taiwan has been disorderly," Lee said.
Although Lee did not single out individuals during his speech, he was probably referring to Wang, a possible candidate to replace Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌).
Lee said that a good politician must be equipped with three qualities -- the will to get things done, good strategy and a capacity for quick action. Such individuals would have to have wisdom to resolve the current dispute, he said.
"It is useless to make distinctions between the blue, green or red camps," Lee said. "In fact, the TSU has held a neutral stance throughout this campaign."
Meanwhile, TSU Chairman Shu Chin-chiang (蘇進強) said yesterday that the TSU would not support any effort to topple the Cabinet, adding that Su had done nothing wrong.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching