Fri, Dec 18, 2009 - Page 3 News List

Most people clueless about ECFA: poll

CROSS-STRAIT TALKS Lawmakers questioned the effectiveness of hearings to explain the ECFA, saying people in the audience were so bored they fell asleep

By Jenny W. Hsu and Shelley Huang  /  STAFF REPORTERS

“Some labor representatives who attended the [ECFA] hearings told me that they heard, but did not understand,” he said.

DPP Legislator Wang Sing-nan (王幸男) said the government’s glossing over of details had left the public confused.

Lawmakers from both parties questioned the effectiveness of the hearings, saying that photos taken at the hearings showed many people were so bored listening to the officials that they fell asleep.

KMT Legislator Ho Tsai-feng (侯彩鳳) said council officials should devise better methods to present the idea in a clear and easy to understand way, so that “even those who are illiterate would be able to understand.”

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