‘DOUBLE STANDARD’: KMT Legislator Lai Shyh-bao accused DPP lawmakers of treating pension reform protesters differently from those in the Sunflower movement
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 27, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators yesterday stifled proceedings at a meeting of
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators yesterday call for more communication and consultation on pension reform during a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign and National Defense Committee. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign and National Defense Committee over a pending actuarial report on military pension reforms, while criticizing Wednesday’s hearing assembled by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus on the issue as a “formality.”
DPP Legislator Wang Ding-yu (王定宇), the party’s convener on the committee, yesterday held a question-and-answer session on the pension reform bill.
The session was attended by Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa (嚴德發) and Veteran Affairs Council Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正).
Immediately after the meeting began, KMT lawmakers, who had occupied the speaker’s podium in the early morning, began shouting slogans, demanding that the DPP improve its communication with retired military retirees before holding a question-and-answer session. [FULL STORY]
