China News Service, November 27. According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", the Kuomintang owed party workers salaries and pensions, and the court applied to seal the auction of party assets. At 10:30 a.m. on the 27th, the Kuomintang Pingtung County Party Headquarters Building was auctioned for the third time. One person bid and successfully won the bid at NT$46.293 million (NT$, the same below), which was NT$4.2 million higher than the reserve price.
auction site. Photography by Taiwan's "United Daily News" reporter Jiang Jiping
It is understood that the Kuomintang owed party workers wages and pensions, and the court applied to seal the auction of party assets. The Pingtung District Court held the third auction of the Kuomintang Pingtung County Party Headquarters at 10:30 a.m. on the 27th. For office buildings, the base price is NT$42.093 million. After
experienced two unsuccessful bids in the auction, this time there was finally one bidder. Pingtung City Mr. Liao came forward on behalf of his friend and successfully won the bid for 46.293 million yuan. Mr. Liao later laughed and said that if he had known that no one would buy the third time, he would have spent an extra 1 yuan to bid.
Since there is still a lease on the first floor of the Kuomintang Pingtung County Party Headquarters building, Mr. Liao said that in the future, it may depend on the content of the lease and the leasing situation, and then negotiate and discuss how to deal with it in the future.
The Kuomintang County Party Headquarters Office Building located on Guilin Street, Pingtung City has 4 floors above ground, 1 floor underground, and 2 surrounding plots of land, covering an area of 3,213 square meters. The original auction reserve price was 65.77 million yuan, but the bid failed in the first auction on July 27. In the second auction on October 23, the reserve price was reduced to 52.616 million yuan with a 20% discount. However, the reserve price was still high and controversial. In the end, no one bid and the bid failed.
In August 2016, Taiwan’s legislative body passed the “Regulations on the Handling of Improperly Acquired Property by Political Parties and Their Affiliated Organizations”. The Kuomintang’s property, except for party dues, political donations, campaign fund donations, campaign expense subsidies, etc., are presumed to be “improperly acquired.” "properties" were frozen and seized, causing financial difficulties for the Kuomintang and making it difficult to pay party workers' salaries and pensions.
