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Speaking to reporters outside the Taipei Post Office, which he visited on Monday morning, President Lai Ching-te again urged the Legislative Yuan to review the general budget and the Executive Yuan’s version of the special defense budget bill. Before the last legislative session ended last Friday, lawmakers of the ruling party rejected the opposition’s proposal to first review a portion of the annual budget encompassing government subsidies such as the T-Pass. The opposition also snubbed the Executive Yuan’s special defense budget bill and advanced the TPP’s version for second reading. Let’s hear more from the president.

Lai Ching-te
President
It’s unbelievable that the Legislative Yuan’s leading parties, the KMT and the TPP, did not for one instance review the central government’s budget, which was planned for the good of the country and the people. At the same time, they’ve disregarded China’s threats and blocked the special defense budget bill. As president, I cannot criticize the Legislative Yuan speaker but can only plead that Speaker Han Kuo-yu do his job and get the central government’s budget passed the soonest possible. Also pass the special defense budget bill. It’s what lawmakers ought to do, and the legislative speaker’s responsibility.

Barring an amendment on social housing reserving 20% of all units to newlyweds, which passed unanimously, all other amendments passed on Friday were voted in by opposition lawmakers through their majority. The premier has expressed refusal to countersign the three amendments into law, a decision the president and DPP lawmakers support. They are an amendment to no longer consider organizations established during the martial law era as affiliated with the KMT; an amendment to the Satellite Braodcasting Act that allow channels to continue broadcasting on their original slots during administrative lawsuits; and a bill classifying aides’ pay as lawmaker subsidies. The president also called on the public to judge for themselves whether these amendments are reasonable.

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