BACKROOM DEALS:Legislator May Chin said that she suspects the government made a secret deal over imports from Japanese prefectures affected by radiation
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 12, 2016
By: Alison Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday accused the government of rushing through a
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators hold a news conference yesterday in Taipei to criticize the government’s “overly hasty” decision to hold a series of public hearings across the nation to discuss lifting the ban on food imports from areas in Japan affected by the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
decision to lift a ban on imports of food products from five Japanese prefectures affected by the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster.
The Executive Yuan on Thursday evening announced that 10 public hearings are to held nationwide from today to Monday on the issue.
Academics, professionals, civic groups and members of the public have been invited to participate to exchange views on the import of food products from Japan’s Fukushima, Tochigi, Gunma, Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures.
The KMT caucus, accompanied by Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Legislator May Chin (高金素梅), said that the that the government is “rushing through the hearings, which the public has demanded, just for the sake of holding public hearings.” [FULL STORY]
