Tomorrow’s opposition leaders meeting with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) would be livestreamed for the public, Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said today as he called on President William Lai (賴清德) to join the meeting.
Huang and Chu would meet tomorrow to discuss how to “return democracy to Taiwan” and other concerns like US tariffs.
Lai has been invited, Huang said, adding that the president’s participation in the meeting would be a “blessing” for the country as now is the time for the three major political parties to meet.
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Lai has had since the Lunar New Year to prepare for the impact of US tariffs, but has instead focused on his own political agenda, Huang said.
He said he reached out to Lai after US President Donald Trump’s announced tariffs at the start of this month, but did not receive a goodwill response.
With regards to allegations of forged signatures in recall petitions against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, Chu has critiqued the prosecutors’ investigation and has called on supporters to demonstrate this Saturday on Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard.
When asked about Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an’s (蔣萬安) suggestion that the Legislative Yuan dismiss the Cabinet through a no-confidence vote and hold new legislative elections, Huang disagreed with the idea.
The person who is at fault for the ongoing political situation is Lai, Huang said, and neither a dissolved cabinet nor new legislative elections would change that situation.
Lai should resign and a new general election be held, Huang added.
New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) said the ruling and opposition parties should come to a consensus, end the mass recalls, stabilize the political situation and focus on global challenges.
The public does not wish to see ongoing fighting between the political parties, Hou said, and Taiwan's politics should return to normalcy for the benefit of everyone.
The DPP and Lai should be more tolerant, respectful and willing to communicate, Hou added.
A 72-year-old man in Kaohsiung was sentenced to 40 days in jail after he was found having sex with a 67-year-old woman under a slide in a public park on Sunday afternoon. At 3pm on Sunday, a mother surnamed Liang (梁) was with her child at a neighborhood park when they found the man, surnamed Tsai (蔡), and woman, surnamed Huang (黃), underneath the slide. Liang took her child away from the scene, took photographs of the two and called the police, who arrived and arrested the couple. During questioning, Tsai told police that he had met Huang that day and offered to
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