PARTY PURGE:Eric Chu expelled five members from the KMT in the name of party unity, but four of them are likely to run against their former colleagues in January
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 18, 2015 – Page 3
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan / Staff reporter, with CNA
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday rejected the “hall of
Lee Chang-chih, left, Jack Yu, center, and Hsu Chai-hsin, spokespeople from the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) joint campaign office for the presidential and legislative elections, raise their fists and chant a slogan as they guide reporters on a tour of the campaign office in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
one voice” label attached to the party after it earlier this week revoked the memberships of five party members who often publicly criticized the party.
“The decision was necessary to uphold the party’s discipline. Party members can criticize the party, chairman, or any party leader, but they cannot undermine party unity,” Chu said.
Chu said that the most important purpose of the expulsion was to call on everyone to “unite as one,” to refrain from “waving a blue flag to oppose the blue flag,” or to “collude with the pan-green camp behind the pan-blue camp’s back.” [FULL STORY]
