The Central Election Commission yesterday ruled that a DPP TV advertisement would "confuse the voters' views of opposition candidates."
The DPP had submitted the ad to the commission for review before airing it from next Monday. The commission said the ad included misrepresentation that would be a violation of the broadcasting law and ordered the party to cut out those parts which named legislators it says were responsible for cutting budgets in the Legislative Yuan.
The DPP has, however, refused to make the cuts, claiming that it had not been informed of the ruling.
"There's no way we will cut those seconds," Hsu Yang-ming (許陽明), the party's deputy secretary general, told reporters yesterday afternoon. "The party has in no way confused the views of any voters" on opposition candidates, he said.
In previous TV spots, the party had accused 17 opposition lawmakers of being "barbaric budget-cutters" -- attracting heavy criticism from those accused.
The commission said yesterday that the party's ads were inappropriate and indulged in rumor-mongering.
In response, Hsu flatly rejected the commission's finding and insisted that nothing would be cut from the ad.
Hsu also unveiled the DPP's new newspaper advertisement yesterday, which attacked the way in which the KMT acquired its assets.
The ad argues, "The KMT is worse than to the Communist Party of East Germany," saying the KMT had staunchly resisted any political reform within the party.
Hsu said that, unlike the former East German communist party which embraced a fair investigation into its party assets, the KMT has been rejecting the Control Yuan's attempts to establish an independent board to look into whether the party has made any illegal gains during its past rule.
Hsu said that the KMT owned assets worth as much as NT$85 billion.
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