Taipei Times
Date: Sep 19, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Presidential Office Building yesterday opened its doors to more than 8,000 visitors to an exhibition
Visitors to the Presidential Office Building wait outside the building yesterday, on the first day the premises are open to the public since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in May. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
organized by the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
The exhibition, titled “Power to the People,” is comprised of seven sections, with one featuring significant social movements that have taken place on Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building over the past two decades, including the 1989 funeral of late democracy movement pioneer Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕), the 2013 protest against nuclear power and the 2014 demonstration against the government’s attempt to rush through the cross-strait trade in services agreement.
Featuring the social movements signals the Tsai administration’s willingness to welcome different voices and opinions into the Presidential Office, which has traditionally been regarded as a less tolerant government agency.
A total of 8,098 people visited the exhibition yesterday, Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) said. [FULL STORY]
