‘GIVE PEOPLE HOPE’: The premier admitted that the government’s communication with the public was less than ideal and vowed to adopt a ‘more humanistic approach’
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 02, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Premier William Lai (賴清德) yesterday initiated the first stage of Cabinet reforms
Premier William Lai, second right, arrives at the Executive Yuan yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
after the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) losses in the nine-in-one elections on Nov. 24, approving the resignation of three ministers.
Lai called a Cabinet-level meeting at the Executive Yuan in Taipei to discuss policy reforms, in which he approved resignations tendered by Minister of Transportation and Communications Wu Hong-mo (吳宏謀), Environmental Protection Administration Minister Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) and Council of Agriculture Minister Lin Tsung-hsien (林聰賢).
All ministers were at the meeting except Hakka Affairs Council Minister Lee Yong-te (李永得), who had prior engagements, but had rendered a report on ways to improve his agency prior to the meeting.
After the results of the elections were announced on Sunday last week, Wu, Lee Ying-yuan and Lin had tendered verbal resignations to Lai, and they yesterday again expressed their desire to resign after presenting reports on how to improve their organizations, Executive Yuan spokeswoman Kolas Yotaka told a post-meeting news conference. [FULL STORY]
