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Legislative Yuan speaker urges lawmaker frugality

Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) urged newly sworn-in lawmakers yesterday to observe legislative regulations and control spending on the refurbishment of their offices at the Legislative Yuan.

He urged them to strive to keep their expenses below NT$100,000.

Wang said that if some legislators cannot keep their spending under NT$100,000, they would have to pay for the excess themselves.

frugal

Wang's comments came in the aftermath of remarks made by Lin Yi-shih, (林益世) director of the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) Central Policy Committee, on Sunday calling for newly-sworn in KMT legislators to be frugal when it comes to spending on refurbishment of their research offices.

Lin called for KMT legislators to avoid extravagance and strive to build a "new image" for the Legislative Yuan, in which the KMT now holds an absolute majority after winning a landslide victory in the Jan. 12 legislative polls, taking 81 seats in the restructured 113-member legislature.

`pigeon holes'

Meanwhile, Wang said that although legislators' office space had doubled as the number of legislators had been almost halved, their offices were still cramped resembling "pigeon holes."

He added that work days at the seventh legislature would be much tougher than was previously the case.

Wang said that although each new legislator was now able to hire two more aides, their work loads, in terms of serving constituents, will be considerably heavier than before because constituencies were much bigger.
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