TRADEOFF?Opposition lawmakers filed complaints accusing the KMT of using financial and other incentives to convince Hung Hsiu-chu to quit the presidential race
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 14, 2015
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Special Investigation Division (SID) will conduct an investigation into
Prosecutor General Yen Ta-ho gestures as he speaks in the Legislative Yuan on Monday last week. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
possible violations of election laws by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), amid allegations that it is pressuring presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) to withdraw from the race, Prosecutor-General Yen Ta-ho (顏大和) said yesterday
SID Director Kuo Wen-tung (郭文東) said that the division would open an official probe as soon as he receives notification from the prosecutor-general’s office.
Yen said that in accordance with the Court Organic Act (法院組織法), the case falls under the purview of the SID, a division of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) on Wednesday last week filed a complaint with the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office accusing the KMT of contravening the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act (總統副總統選舉罷免法) by offering Hung financial incentives as a condition for withdrawing in favor of a new candidate to be nominated by the party. [FULL STORY]
