Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-26
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – After a day which saw lawmakers vote on guidelines for ill-gotten party
Legislators ready to vote during Monday’s special session.
assets, the Legislative Yuan faced a non-stop voting marathon lasting more than 80 hours, this time on the budgets of state enterprises, reports said Tuesday.
The 113-member body spent most of Monday voting on a controversial project to review allegedly illegally acquired assets by the Kuomintang, with the opposition trying to block the passage of the bill by adding as many amendments as possible.
A similar tactic was being deployed Tuesday as 2,419 items were added to the budget review of the state corporations, not all of the proposals came from the KMT, reports said.
While a total of 1,668 were filed by the main opposition, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party also presented 818 motions. According to various calculations mentioned in the media, voting on all the proposals would take between 15 and 30 days even if the lawmakers worked 24 hours a day as four rounds of voting were possible for each item. [FULL STORY]