KMT Secretary-General King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) yesterday said he would meet legislators-at-large at least once a month to keep them in check after party members complained that Legislator-at-Large Lo Shu-lei (羅淑蕾) attacked the KMT rather than toe the party line.
King met Lo at party headquarters yesterday afternoon. After the meeting, King said that in a bid to “strengthen communications between party lawmakers and the executive branch,” he would meet the party’s legislators-at-large at least once a month to “exchange opinions.”
He would convey their views to the Executive Yuan so that communication between them would be smoother and healthier, he said.
King said during his recent visit to party offices in Tainan that he heard several complaints about the performance of the party’s legislators-at-large.
To let the legislators-at-large communicate with grassroots supporters face-to-face, King said he would invite them to talk with local supporters.
The outspoken Lo has a reputation for criticizing the KMT and her KMT colleagues.
Lo last month criticized King’s decision to hire former 1111 job bank Ryan Wu (吳睿穎) executive vice president as the party’s personnel project manager when Wu resigned over sexual harassment allegations after just 24 days.
Lo said King thought he had found talent, “but in fact he found a pile of shit.”
On KMT Legislator Wu Yu-sheng’s (吳育昇) extra-marital affair, Lo said “a man who cheated on his wife did not have any taste for women.”
Commenting on the KMT’s performance, she likened it to a mahjong game in which the party originally had the upper-hand, but now had almost lost everything.
After the meeting, Lo told reporters she told King that while she always defended KMT policy, media liked to focus on the part of her comments that “attracted more attention.”
She said smooth communications between lawmakers and the executive branch were good and would help the government implement its policies.
In the south, Taichung County Council Deputy Speaker Chang Chuang-hsi (張壯熙) yesterday announced his withdrawal from the Taichung mayoral election in November after talking with King yesterday.
Chang said he would endorse incumbent Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強).
Vice Premier Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday said he would do his best if the party nominated him for the Sinbei City race. He would also change his household registration to Sinbei City next month or in May.
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