CONSENSUS FAILURE:Outside the venue, protesters attempted to rush a police barricade, with between 20 and 30 occupying a courtyard by the front entrance
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 01, 2017
By: Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA
The first public forum on pension reform failed to reach any clear conclusions yesterday, with
Representatives of military personnel, civil servants and public-school teachers yesterday clash with police outside the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taipei, where a public hearing on pension reform was being held. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
proceedings often becoming chaotic as noisy, while violent protests further disrupted proceedings.
The forum, chaired by Minster of Labor Kuo Fang-yu (郭芳煜), began at 2pm, while the Oversight for Pension Reforms Alliance staged a protest outside the venue, the GIS MOTC Convention Center in Taipei.
The atmosphere at the forum was tense. Attendees insisted that a matter of procedure be addressed first, as the forum was not chaired by National Pension Reform Commission Deputy Convener Lin Wan-i (林萬億), who had chaired previous forums on the issue.
Participants were vociferous and often punctuated their criticisms with loud banging on tables.
The noisy complaints continued during Kuo’s opening remarks. [FULL STORY]
