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KMT's cycling activity to focus on economy
PUBLIC LIVELIHOOD:
The KMT said the government should stop obsessing about the UN issue and pay more attention to improving the economy
By Mo Yan-chih
STAFF REPORTER
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007, Page 3
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A girl rides a bicycle with bottles tied to it yesterday morning at the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) headquarters in Taipei at an activity announcing a bicycle tour the party has organized to focus on public livelihood.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is holding a cycling activity focusing on the "plight of the people" at 7am in Taipei today.
KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) will lead about 500 cyclists and party members in the 5km tour from National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall on Xinyi Road, passing along Keelung Road and Renai Road and finishing at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on Guangfu S Road.
Announcing route of the cycling activity, Yang Tu (楊渡) of the KMT's Culture and Communications Committee said that the party would not mobilize party mem-bers to join the activity and would seek to avoid any confrontations with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is holding its UN torch relay around the same time.
"This [cycling] activity is being held to urge the ruling party to stop its obsession with the UN referendum issue. Putting more efforts on improving public livelihood is much more important," Yang said at KMT headquarters.
Lai Su-ju (賴素如), director of the KMT's public relations department, said the party would tie milk powder cans and traditional blue and white slippers on the bicycles to illustrate the hardship of the people's lives.
Other city and county governments will hold their own cycling activities on the same day or later at their own convenience, Lai said.
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