MOVIE TROPE?DPP Legislator Tsai Yi-yu said that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is always hiding in the shadows at major events, like a character in a martial arts film
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2016
By: Chen Yu-fu, Lee Hsin-fang and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday urged the organizers of a protest over
A police officer speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday in front of a diagram displaying traffic and protest controls planned for a protest over plans for government pensions. Photo: CNA
plans for government pensions to refuse help from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to avoid politicizing the event.
An alliance of retired and active military personnel, civil servants and public-school teachers is to take to the streets in Taipei this afternoon to protest what it called the “stigmatization” of public-sector pensioners.
The alliance said that the protest was organized to appeal for “respect for dignity and an end to defamation of character,” as well as being “a call for President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to stop the bullying of state employees.”
Public-sector pensioners are often depicted as enjoying generous retirement benefits and are wrongly blamed for the problems in the pension system, the groups said.
The KMT was expected to mobilize members of its Huang Fu-hsing military veterans’ branch, its Department of Women’s Affairs and its Department of Youth Affairs and said it would set up three support stations along the protest route. [FULL STORY]
