SPLITTIST?Yok Mu-ming said the premier seems to be splitting the ROC’s sovereignty, and he said he was giving the KMT a week to decide whether to join his party’s lawsuit
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 29, 2017
By: Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The New Party has called on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to join it in filing a
At a news conference in Taipei yesterday, New Party Chairman Yok Mu-ming, third right, calls on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to join it in filing a formal complaint against Premier William Lai for sedition. Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
formal complaint against Premier William Lai (賴清德) for sedition after he said he is a “political worker who advocates Taiwanese independence.”
Lai made the remark on Tuesday during a question-and-answer session at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei when asked to comment on China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Ma Xiaoguang’s (馬曉光) comment that cross-strait relations are not state-to-state relations.
New Party Chairman Yok Mu-ming (郁慕明) said Lai’s statement was “very mysterious.”
As head of the Executive Yuan, Lai is the highest executive authority of the Republic of China (ROC), Yok said. [FULL STORY]
