Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday suggested that the Cabinet’s Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) consider organizing an online poll for the public to vote on their “top 10 complaints.”
Government Information Office Chief Secretary Joseph Chen (陳永豐) yesterday quoted Wu as making the suggestion during a meeting in which Cabinet officials briefed him on a draft plan to revive the “grassroots economy” (庶民經濟), a concept floated by Wu since he became premier two months ago.
The “top 10 complaints” was inspired by Minister Without Portfolio Yiin Chii-ming (尹啟銘) who was recently appointed to the post after he left the former Cabinet as minister of the economic affairs two months ago, Chen said.
Yiin was quoted by Chen as saying that he was annoyed when his vehicle, which was temporarily parked on a yellow line, was towed within three minutes of him stopping outside a convenience store.
Citing the example, Yiin said he believed many people have had similar experiences.
Current traffic regulations permit a vehicle to park temporarily on a yellow line for three minutes so long as there’s a person in the car.
During the meeting yesterday, Cabinet officials proposed more than 200 measures in the draft action plan, but Wu asked the officials to scale down the size and to propose their flagship items by the end of the month, Chen said.
“When you want to take care of each and every aspect of every matter, you often end up achieving nothing,” Chen quoted Wu as saying.
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