Former Presidential Office -secretary-general Chen Shih-meng (陳師孟) yesterday urged the Control Yuan to question Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) over remarks that Chen called “offensive” to the Republic of China (ROC) national flag.
Chen accused Wu of “dishonoring the national flag” in a recent remark he made about an incident at Kainan University. A Chinese basketball team withdrew from an Asian University Basketball Championship game after the school’s students decorated the campus with ROC flags.
Fielding questions from lawmakers on the legislative floor regarding the matter, Wu said: “There were some people deliberately provoking disputes by using the flag,” as he referred to an incident on Thursday in which officials from the Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation, the tournament organizer, asked three Kainan students to take down their 1m-high national flag at a game between the Taiwan University All-Stars and China’s Tianjin Polytechnic University.
Saying that Wu responded to the question “in a frivolous way” and his comments were “devoid of sense,” Chen said the students had the right to hold up an ROC flag in the bleachers.
“The officials had no legal basis to ask the students to remove the national flag. In accordance with the Olympic mode, national flags are forbidden at a stadium, but not in auditorium seating,” Chen said.
Chen said that in 2002, then-People First Party lawmakers demanded the Control Yuan investigate remarks Chen made then that “there is no equal sign between a national flag and the state.”
The Control Yuan concluded that Chen “should deeply reflect on what he said.”
Chen said that the Control Yuan should apply the same practice to Wu’s case and question the premier.
Control Yuan member Lee Ping-nan (李炳南) received the petition and said he would handle the case with caution.
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