At 5:30 in the morning on September 28, one and a half hours before the opening of the conference hall, KMT League Secretary Chen Yuzhen and other "legislators" gathered at the entrance of the conference hall, gearing up to cause a scene.

Source: Reference News Network

Reference News Network reported on September 28 (Text/Tang Lixin)

The entire Taiwan legislative body is in chaos today.

But when they filed in at 7 o'clock, they were dumbfounded: there were "legislators" from the Democratic Progressive Party who had been vigiling there since last night, occupying a favorable position, and had been "waiting" for a long time.

The conflict between blue and green immediately broke out. The "legislators" of the two parties each occupied the speaking stage, the question stage and the inquiry stage. The "blue committee members" brought their own microphones and took turns speaking and shouting slogans. The "green committee members" responded with swear words many times. The "Blue Committee" was asked to evacuate, and the two sides even had physical conflicts. Before the agenda even started, the meeting hall was already full of chicken feathers.

The conflict further intensified with the arrival of the protagonist of today's farce - Su Zhenchang, the head of the administrative agency of the Taiwan authorities. According to the plan, Su Zhenchang will give a "policy address" and accept questions today. After he arrives, the Democratic Progressive Party's "Legislator" "Immediately built a human wall and used the "human sea tactic" to push him to the podium, while the Kuomintang "legislators" who were blocking him from the outside were pushed to the ground.

Su Zhenchang walked for 1 minute and 57 seconds from entering the forum to walking to the podium. His next speech was only 22 seconds and he said 52 words. As for the content of what he said, "even The media couldn’t hear clearly what was being reported.”

finished his speech hastily, the agenda immediately entered the question and answer session, but the farce was not over yet. When Su Zhenchang was preparing for questioning, Chen Yuzhen, the "Female Goddess of the Blue Camp" in the Taiwanese media, and Qiu Yiying, the "Female Goddess of the Green Camp" Pushing, rude remarks. The Kuomintang group also launched a "human sea offensive", holding up signs to block Su Zhenchang, and even snatched the microphone from the questioner's hand, making it impossible to continue the questioning. Seeing that the proceedings could not proceed, the host of the meeting had to announce a break for negotiations.

In an interview with the media afterwards, the DPP caucus criticized the Kuomintang for "treating the forum like a circus." Chen Yuzhen said that it was the DPP that first launched a "malicious spiral" last night (September 27) and wanted to seize the forum. , violating the principle of "taking charge of the country and not making trouble", the Kuomintang group had no choice but to "stand up and speak out."

As for other parties, the "Force of the Times" accused the Kuomintang of causing trouble, making it difficult to focus on questions and answers. This move "is basically to protect the DPP" and called on the Kuomintang group to stop wasting taxpayers' money and return to the question desk. Substantive supervision. The People's Party "played fifty pieces each" and criticized the Kuomintang for "boycotting the proceedings" and the DPP for being "domestic and incompetent". The DPP was unwilling to listen to the opposition parties, which led to the Kuomintang occupying the forum.

Although the performance of the Kuomintang group today is not decent, the initiators of the farce are the DPP and Su Zhenchang.

Things started more than ten days ago. On September 17, the first day of the new session of Taiwan’s legislative body, Su Zhenchang was invited to give a special report on the decision-making process of “3+11 (home quarantine for 3 days, independent health management for 11 days)”. This report became the trigger for a series of farce that followed.

Taiwan’s local epidemic broke out in mid-May this year. The outside world generally believes that the breach in epidemic prevention is that the Taiwan authorities relaxed the epidemic prevention control for crew members to “3+11”. Therefore, Taiwan’s legislative body passed a resolution on June 17, requiring the administrative agency to wait for 3 months. An investigation team was established within the company and a written investigation report was submitted. In other words, September 17 was already the deadline, and the report was urgently sent to the legislative body on the evening of September 16.

Some "legislators", including the Kuomintang League, believe that the administrative agency of the Taiwan authorities under Su Tseng-chang's "pressure" to submit the report is disrespectful to the legislative body, and the content of the report is even more "shameless."

It turns out that the report did not admit that "3+11" was a breach, did not announce the decision-making process of the meeting, and did not reflect on the mistakes in the decision-making process. Instead, it avoided the important points and ignored the light ones, emphasizing that all decisions in the epidemic prevention process could not be perfect, and then began to praise virtues and promote Taiwan. How far-sighted are the authorities’ anti-epidemic measures?This made the Kuomintang very angry. One "Blue Committee" denounced the report as "completely arrogant, completely abdicating responsibility, and not feeling the slightest bit guilty because the outbreak resulted in the death of more than 800 people from the epidemic."

also analyzed that Chen Shizhong, the head of Taiwan's epidemic prevention department, knew that he might step down if there was even the slightest hint of admitting fault, so this report was completely a "protection report" for Chen Shizhong and Su Zhenchang. Therefore, the Kuomintang regiment resolutely resisted this report. They made a big fuss at the meetings held on September 17 and September 24 and did not allow Su Zhenchang to come to the stage to report unless he apologized first.

The conflicts have accumulated until now, and finally the most intense conflict broke out this morning. However, this afternoon, the situation seemed to have eased: at around 2:10 p.m., the Kuomintang League chief Fei Hongtai suddenly entered the venue and shouted "War has begun!" But this time only Chen Yuzhen rushed to the rostrum, and was immediately surrounded by five people. The above-mentioned "green committee members" were surrounded, and no one from the other "blue committee members" stepped forward to support them. They even chatted with other "green committee members" in the audience.

Even so, the questioning session in the afternoon did not go smoothly. Green Camp changed the order of questioning through a series of operations, so that Fei Hongtai, who was originally supposed to be questioned in third place, became the first, which made Blue Camp passive in terms of procedures, causing The "Blue Committee" protested. When it was Chen Yuzhen's turn to ask questions, she even tried to climb onto the rostrum to protest. She was then pulled down by several female DPP "legislators" and carried away. The conflict resumed, with Su Zhenchang and others sitting nearby. "Watch a show" until 3:40 p.m., when the host announced the adjournment of the meeting.

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The conference is over and the debate continues. Lin Xiyao, secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party, criticized that the situation today (28th) is by no means "reasonable" as emphasized by Kuomintang Chairman-elect Zhu Lilun , while Zhu Lilun supported the "Blue Committee" and said that he would fight against the irrational DPP Only extraordinary measures can be taken. What Su Zhenchang should do is not to go to the stage to report, but to step down and take responsibility.

Zhu Lilun countered that the DPP used its majority to violently bully the people. Many of the KMT’s bills that received great attention from the society were all blocked by the DPP’s majority vote. At this time, they dared to say "one island, one life", which is basically "the same island". The party has a life.”

The problem of the Democratic Progressive Party is obvious. The Kuomintang also used "extraordinary means", but is it effective?

Su Zhenchang still has not apologized, Chen Shizhong is still in office, and the "Green Committee" is still outnumbered... If fighting was effective, the political situation on the island would not be in such chaos long ago.

Since the late 1980s, cases of "legislators" jumping on the rostrum to fight have begun to appear in Taiwan's legislative bodies. By the 1990s, it became a common practice and was known to the world. However, the fights in the forum became more and more lively. , Taiwan's overall development has become increasingly depressed. The reason is that they are not really fighting for Taiwan, but for their own selfish interests.

In a fight in the assembly hall in 2017, a Kuomintang "legislator" broke the news, saying that many DPP "legislators" actually said that they should fight harder because "if the fight is serious, my polls will be better." It will be high”. The DPP "legislator" involved also admitted: "If party members vote poorly, they should rush to the front. It doesn't matter if they are killed, the polls will naturally rise."

In the final analysis, it is all just a show.

The Democratic Progressive Party group "muddled through" in the chaos today, but the matter is not over yet. On the Kuomintang side, Fei Hongtai and Chen Yuzhen threatened that the DPP had cheated and violated the proceedings. If they did not apologize, they would cut off any future negotiations with the DPP. Starting today, the Kuomintang group will engage in a "scorched earth war" with the Democratic Progressive Party group.

I don’t know how long Taiwan’s legislative body will be “idling” this time...