The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislative caucus yesterday said it would not support the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) candidates for legislative speaker and deputy speaker.
"We will either propose our own candidates and vote for them or simply not vote," DPP legislative caucus convener Ker Chien-ming (
Ker made his remarks during a press conference at the DPP legislative caucus office after a meeting yesterday morning.
He said the only consensus they reached was that the DPP would not support the KMT candidates. Whether the party would propose and vote for its own candidates or simply not take part in the election would be decided during another caucus meeting on Thursday.
Ker said that during the meeting, some DPP lawmakers had asked whether the party would support Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) in his reelection as legislative speaker, but lawmakers could not come to a unanimous decision.
Ker also mentioned that although the KMT had said it would surrender four convener seats on 16 legislative committees to the DPP, these four seats would not help as the KMT would still control a majority on the four committees.
"Our focus will be on proposing legislation that is of high-value to a majority of the people so that our policies will not be ignored," Ker said. "That is how we are going to survive now that we only possess 27 seats in the legislature."
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