TIT-FOR-TAT FEARS:KMT caucus convener Sufin Siluko said that the DPP might ‘respond to evil with evil’ by making their own demands to initiate legislative recalls
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 10, 2016
By: William Hetherington / Staff writer, with CNA
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday revealed that it was unaware of plans by the
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus convener Sufin Siluko, left, Democratic Progressive Party caucus whip Ker Chien-ming, center, and DPP Legislator Chao Tien-lin, right, exchange opinions at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Lin Cheng-kun, Taipei Times
party’s headquarters to demand a recall of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, saying it learned of the issue from the media.
KMT caucus convener Sufin Siluko (廖國棟) said that demands for a recall of DPP legislators being made by the KMT headquarters were never communicated to the party’s caucus.
Sufin said the KMT caucus only learned about the demands by reading about them in newspaper reports.
The DPP caucus has responded by saying that if the KMT “plays with fire it will get burned.”
DPP caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) said the KMT was acting like a group without a leader, comparing their actions to the failed Qing-era Boxer Rebellion, in which an anti-foreign militia believed itself to be invulnerable. [FULL STORY]