PENSION REFORM PROTEST: The Cabinet is mulling introducing a bill that toughens the penalties for assaulting a police officer, Premier William Lai said
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 27, 2018
By: Su Yung-yao, Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Presidential Office yesterday condemned the outbreak of violence at Wednesday’s
Members of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Huang Fu-hsing military veterans branch yesterday join a protest organized by military veterans’ group 800 Heroes outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
pension protest and vowed to continue with its pension reform, while Premier William Lai (賴清德) said the Cabinet could lead legislative efforts to toughen the penalties for assaulting a police officer.
Violent lawbreakers do not represent the nation’s patriotic and loyal soldiers, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said on Wednesday on Facebook, hours after rioters assaulted and injured 68 police officers and 16 journalists at a protest staged by the military veterans’ group 800 Heroes.
“This administration will not bow down to violence and it will not budge from the path of reform. I ask the nation to stand with reform and take the administration’s side,” Tsai wrote. [FULL STORY]
