NEXT STEPS? The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee said that it would meet to decide whether to issue administrative penalties and freeze league assets
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 23, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, with CNA
Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮) yesterday ordered the removal of the
Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong, center, speaks at a news conference at the Ministry of the Interior in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
National Women’s League’s (NWL) leadership after the group refused to sign an administrative contract that would see it undergo a drastic structural reform.
The Ministry of the Interior issued an official document ordering the removal of league chairwoman Cecilia Koo (辜嚴倬雲) and league deputy chairwoman Yeh Chin-fong (葉金鳳) after it received a letter from the group stating its opposition to government-led public supervision and its decision not to sign the contract, Yeh said.
“This is not the result we had hoped for, but we have to face it with courage,” Yeh told a news conference at the ministry in Taipei, adding that negotiations proved that the power of a few reformists within the league was not enough to bring changes to an organization that has lived in the past and closed itself off from the outside world. [FULL STORY]
