Both the green camp and the blue camp yesterday censured the Tuntex Group's (
"The government and the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] should immediately file a lawsuit against Chen Yu-hao," said Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Liu Cheng-hung (
"How could the government allow a fugitive to slander the president and his family?" Liu said, "Is the minister of justice sleeping?"
However, Liu and other People First Party (PFP) lawmakers also asked Premier Yu Shyi-kun to assign the Cabinet's Black Gold Investigation Center to investigate Chen Yu-hao's allegation.
"If President Chen Shui-bian (
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Vice Minister of Justice Hsieh Wen-ting (
"The law won't take a holiday during the election campaign, and we will try our best to arrest Chen Yu-hao," he said.
However, the DPP said that the pan-blue alliance is playing a sleight-of-hand trick.
"The pan-blues pretend they are not involved with Chen Yu-hao with one hand, while assisting the fugitive in tarnishing the DPP with the other," said Cheng Wen-tsan (
Cheng said that because the hand-in-hand rally on Saturday successfully boosted the DPP's support rating in opinion polls, the pan-blue camp helped to launch Chen Yu-hao's mudslinging effort through sympathetic media channels in an attempt to reduce the DPP's momentum.
Media collusion?
"According to one local newspaper, a reporter said that he interviewed Chen Yu-hao one week ago, and another local newspaper reported that the KMT had prepared an advanced statement regarding Chen Yu-hao's allegation. Isn't this evidence to prove that there is a support team behind the fugitive?" Cheng said.
"Why did the KMT know Chen Yu-hao's next move before he made it?" he asked.
"The second wave of Chen Yu-hao's groundless allegations is clearly a part of the pan-blue camp's mudslinging. This is a tactic which the KMT has always adopted in the last phase of an election during the past few years," Cheng said.
DPP presidential campaign headquarters spokesman Wu Nai-jen (
Wu said a fugitive who is afraid of returning to the nation to face the judiciary has no right to make absurd accusations of others.
"We are very sorry that the pan-blue camp is willing to cooperate with a criminal," Wu said.
"Chen Yu-hao has even said that he would like to jump off the roof of his home if he is lying," Wu asked.
"So why doesn't he have the guts to return to Taiwan?" the spokesman said.
He said that since Chen Yu-hao has refused to provide any concrete evidence, the DPP had no reason to respond to his continued allegations.
"We believe the public will decide for itself why a presidential candidate echoes a fugitive's tricks, but at the same time does not utter a word of censure to the criminal," he said.
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