The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of trying to mislead the public with its latest print advertisement on the legislature's performance.
The caucus was referring to an ad that appeared in yesterday's edition of the Chinese-language China Times. in which the KMT said that the DPP's repeated boycott had stalled legislative meetings and left important legislation concerning the economy pending.
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"They [KMT legislators] are actually the ones who did the things they complained about in the advertisement. But now they are trying to blame us for it," DPP legislative caucus whip Wang Tuoh (
"What we have been boycotting are proposals designed to help the KMT protect their stolen assets," Wang said. "The DPP is the minority in the legislature. How can we possibly block bills in the legislature?"
The advertisement claimed the DPP had boycotted 369 proposals and interrupted legislative meetings on 927 occasions during the current legislative session.
Despite the opposition, the KMT managed to use its majority in the legislature to approve 1,364 proposals in the past seven years, the ad said. That compares with 783 approved bills during the KMT era when the DPP was the opposition party, it said.
"They [the KMT] have boycotted at least NT$723.5 billion [US$23 billion] in government budgets. Let's not forget that," Wang said.
DPP Legislator Hsieh Hsin-ni (
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She claimed that the budget for bills the KMT had been pushing, including housing subsidies for military veterans and their families, was double the amount of bills the DPP had proposed for elderly farmers.
"A real political party would take care of everybody who is living on the same soil, not be selective," Hsieh said.
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