QUID PRO QUO: Media speculated that KMT caucus whip Lin Te-fu agreed to let the bill advance to committee if the DPP would shelve a transitional justice act proposal
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 19, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday urged the
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih, center, attends a party event at its Hsinchu headquarters in Hsinchu County yesterday. Photo: Wang Chun-chieh, Taipei Times
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus to hold public hearings about the Cabinet’s draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), which advanced to legislative committee reviews on Friday.
Wu made the remarks yesterday morning on the sidelines of a conference on vegetarianism at National Taiwan University, in response to media inquiries about alleged tensions within the KMT caucus due to a lack of consensus among the party’s lawmakers on how to handle the draft amendment.
Some KMT lawmakers were reported to have insisted on blocking the draft amendment from being forwarded for committee reviews, while others, including KMT caucus whip Lin Te-fu (林德福), only demanded that public hearings be held to solicit opinions before the bill could clear the legislative floor. [FULL STORY]
