’ITS OWN LABORATORY’:The KMT focused its criticism on Hochen Tan’s plans to cancel freeway holiday toll-free hours and a reversal on seven national holidays
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 23, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday accused the Democratic Progressive Party
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu, standing, talks at a meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times
(DPP) administration of treating Taiwan as its laboratory, criticizing a number of the government’s recent livelihood policies it described as chaotic and flip-flopping.
Two days after the first-month anniversary of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) taking office, the KMT held a press conference in Taipei yesterday morning to urge Tsai’s government to refrain from flip-flopping on public policies.
“Since the ruling party was sworn in, it has treated the whole of Taiwan as its own laboratory,” KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Cheng Shih-wei (鄭世維) told the news conference.
Singling out Minister of Transportation and Communications Hochen Tan (賀陳旦), Cheng said Hochen has resorted to price hikes for almost all of his transportation policies, as evidenced by his plans to cancel toll-free hours on freeways at night during the Dragon Boat Festival and increase parking fees at tourist destinations. [FULL STORY]
