Pan-blue lawmakers yesterday continued their efforts to oppose the government's recent name-change campaign with legislative measures.
Chunghwa Post Co's (
However, the change requires four amendments to the regulations governing postal administration and Chunghwa Post itself.
Yesterday, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party (PFP) legislators prevented the four amendments from being placed on the legislative agenda in the Procedure Committee.
"We oppose the name change. Why should the government waste money on name changes instead of focussing on economic development?" KMT Legislator Kuo Su-chun (
Other government initiated name-changes include those of Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC,
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) also publicly encouraged Chiang Yao-chung (江耀宗), chairman of state-owned China Steel (中國鋼鐵), to change that corporation's name.
KMT Legislator Lin Te-fu (
"The budget requests were made in the companies' original names. Now that their names have changed, the names on the budget requests do not reflect reality," Lin said.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Cheng Yun-peng (鄭運鵬) and Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇), however, contended that all bills submitted to to the Procedure Committee should be placed on the legislative agenda for scrutiny.
In addition to the four proposals aimed at altering the postal company's name, another bill amending the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law (總統副總統選罷法) -- specifically banning indicted individuals from taking part in presidential elections -- was also frozen by KMT and PFP lawmakers.
The proposed amendment to the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law is widely believed to be targeted at former KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (
Ma announced his presidential bid following his indictment by Taipei prosecutors on Feb. 13.
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