Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice presidential candidate Su Tseng-chang (
"What the KMT wants is unification with China," he said. "Under such circumstances, Taiwan would be a tiny cricket and China a giant hen. Ma's unification proposal would only destroy Taiwan because the hen's nature is to eat the cricket."
Su made the remarks at the inauguration of DPP Legislator William Lai's (
Su said the legislature was still in the hands of the KMT, People First Party and independent legislators despite the change of government. The opposition habitually blocks reform bills and construction projects proposed by the DPP administration and blocked this year's government budgets until May this year.
"It only proves that Ma is insincere in his care for regional development and his love of Taiwan," Su said.
The people of Taiwan are the bosses of the country, he said, and only a DPP victory in the presidential election in March will ensure progress for the nation.
Su said a DPP victory would force the KMT to change its name to the "Taiwan Nationalist Party."
Meanwhile, DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (
Hsieh spokesman Chao Tien-lin (
Chao made the remarks in response to Ma's criticism of Hsieh's economic policies.
In other related news, Vice President Annette Lu (
"When the president and I were running in the elections, we promoted our ideas and visions and won the support of the people," she said in Taichung County. "In the old days, blood had to be spilled and a price had to be paid before a change in government."
Lu said she was sentenced to a 12-year term by the KMT regime on charges of sedition for a 20-minute Kaohsiung speech she made on human rights in December 1979. She served almost five-and-a-half years in jail.
Lu said the media was more interested in broadcasting the voices of liars, but the public must make its own voice heard and insist on honesty and fairness.
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