The ruling DPP has endorsed President Chen Shui-bian's (
"The [to-be-established] alliance, comprising at least 120 legislators, will lay a groundwork for the future establishment of a coalition government," party Secretary-General Wu Nai-jen (
Commanding the party's campaigning activities, Chen has repeatedly said the party aims to "pursue political stability and economic prosperity, and to conduct legislative reform and a crackdown on black gold politics (要穩定,大改革,拼經濟,掃黑金)."
DPP Chairman Frank Hsieh (
The legislative reform includes cutting the 225-member legislative seats by half, implementing a single district-two votes system and passing the sunshine law to ensure all government officials and civil servants have no conflict of interest when setting national policies.
The party`s Central Standing Committee further reached a ruling demanding that all party candidates endorse the agreement before elections and act on it after entering the legislature.
In response to the Control Yuan's inquiries, the DPP-dominated Cabinet has pushed forward the establishment of an independent commission to probe KMT assets, which the party has long argued were illegal gains from the state's coffers during its past rule.
The party said that "the KMT is worse than the Communist Party in East Germany," which automatically initiated the creation of an independent board to investigate its own party assets after it came to power. The DPP, therefore, is targeting the assets of the richest party in the world, saying that "if the funds are to be returned, they will be allocated to pay for the nation's social welfare policies," part of which were Chen's campaign promises during last presidential election.
The DPP, meanwhile, has tried to implement a pension program. The interior ministry recently announced that the plan would probably take effect in January.
During this year's election, the DPP has downplayed its pro-independence stance, and only insisted on its opposition to the "one country, two systems" (一國兩制) formula.
Nevertheless, to solicit voters in the middle ground, the party reached a decision at its National Congress late October, making its "1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future" (
Moreover, the congress also passed an economic resolution to endorse the consensus reached during the Economic Development Advisory Conference, including relaxation of the "no haste, be patient (戒急用忍)" policy.
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