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KMT urged to stop asset sales

Taipei Times

A woman holds a child at an election campaign event in support of Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen in Taoyuan yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday called on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to stop selling its controversial party assets, questioning whether it is doing so to avoid supervision from the next legislature.

KMT ouster only way to carry out reform

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is likely to experience a full collapse in the presidential and legislative elections next month. After KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) replaced Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) as the party’s presidential candidate, the KMT has moved away from the Huang Fu Hsing (黃復興) military veterans’ chapter toward the local political factions that it previously despised. However, the effort is probably in vain, because Taiwanese are thirsting for change.

Returning Taiwan to Taiwanese

Liberty Times Editorial

The Taoyuan City Government has established the Chung Chao-cheng Literary Award and Chung Chao-cheng Literary Park, both of which were named after Taiwanese writer Chung Chao-cheng (鍾肇政).

However, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) City Councilor Lu Shu-chen (呂淑真) asked: “Who on Earth is Chung Chao-cheng? Is he still alive? Why should we set up an award for him? Why do we arrange these things if he is still alive?”

Unhijacking the nation’s democracy

Taipei Times Editorial

In 30 days, voters are to go to the polls and exercise their democratic right to vote in the presidential and legislative elections.

While the nation is often lauded for its robust democracy — its democratization is a proud achievement — people often seem to equate being able to vote with being a part of a direct and representative democracy, without considering how their voices have in fact been muzzled as a result of the Referendum Act (公民投票法), which is known as a “bird cage” act.

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