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DPP seeks act to regulate party assets

Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, third right, and other party members hold up signs calling for a political party act at DPP headquarters in Taipei yesterday.
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The Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Central Standing Committee yesterday adopted a resolution aimed at regulating political party assets, while prohibiting parties to run businesses, specifically targeting the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

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