Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said that he expects this year to be a year of “peace.” However, this is ironic given the actions of some KMT legislators and politicians.
To push forward several amendments, they went against the principles of legislation such as substantive deliberation, and even tried to remove obstacles with violence during the third readings of the bills.
Chu says that the KMT represents the public interest, accusing President William Lai (賴清德) and the Democratic Progressive Party of fighting against the opposition.
After pushing through the amendments, the KMT caucus demanded that Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) postpone the transmission of the newly passed amendments to the Act Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures (財政收支劃分法) and the Public Officials Election and Recall Act (公職人員選舉罷免法) to Lai for promulgation.
The Chinese Communist Party has never given up its “united front” work against Taiwan, yet Chu says that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are of the same language and race, so they can seek common ground while reserving differences, while at the same time cooperating with Beijing to pass the amendments and to cut the national defense budget.
Chu is calling for “peace” just to ask the Lai administration and Taiwanese to tolerate the KMT, which acts like a “Trojan horse” to accelerate China’s agenda. Taiwanese must see through the calculations behind Chu’s words, and take appropriate actions.
Roger Wu works in the service sector.
Translated by Eddy Chang
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