The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus is ceasing cooperation with Citizen’s Congress Watch, it said yesterday, calling the legislative watchdog biased because it only finds fault with the KMT and not other parties.
KMT caucus secretary-general Jessica Chen (陳玉珍) said that no matter what the KMT does, the group sees the party as doing something wrong.
Effective immediately, all 39 legislators in the caucus are to cease providing Citizen’s Congress Watch with any information, KMT caucus convener Alex Fai (費鴻泰) said.
After the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) pushed the fiscal budget to a second reading on Dec. 21 last year, Citizen’s Congress
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Parties try to tie DPP to comments by Lin Wei-feng
By Wu Su-wei and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) “cannot escape blame” after Lin Wei-feng (林瑋豐), a political commentator, was found to have used his own anonymous posts as evidence that China was conducting cognitive warfare, opposition parties said yesterday.
Lin on Monday apologized on Facebook after reports said that he operated an account on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT) online bulletin board, posting content that appeared to support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Lin on Monday posted on PTT’s gossip board using the bj26bj account, writing that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Line account is fake and calling for its “destruction,” reports said.