‘VIOLENT SPEAKER’: The KMT caucus later condemned Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan, saying that he failed to remain neutral and was violent toward a legislator
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 21, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
A fracas broke out at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday before the Democratic
Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan, third left, speaks as Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers shield him from documents thrown during a plenary session at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Sam Yeh, AFP
Progressive Party (DPP) caucus sent a draft amendment to the Act of Military Service for Officers and Noncommissioned Officers of the Armed Forces (陸海空軍軍官士官服役條例) to committee review with a majority vote.
The Executive Yuan last week unveiled the draft amendment, which proposes setting the minimum monthly pension for retired military personnel at NT$38,990, gradually phasing out an 18 percent preferential interest rate on the savings of retired personnel enlisted before 1995 and a formula for calculating pensions for military retirees.
The DPP and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucuses yesterday each submitted a motion regarding the proposed legislation at a plenary session of the legislature, with the DPP aiming to send the bill to committee review and the KMT opposing the move.
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