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BackDPP spokesperson Wu Zheng criticized Kuomintang Gaoping legislators Ke Zhien and Su Qingquan for abandoning their orders to protect the factory, calling them accomplices and culprits
DPP spokesperson Wu Zheng criticized Kuomintang Gaoping legislators Ke Zhien and Su Qingquan for abandoning their orders to protect the factory, calling them accomplices and culprits
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DPP spokesperson Wu Zheng criticized Kuomintang Gaoping legislators Ke Zhien and Su Qingquan for abandoning their orders to protect the factory, calling them accomplices and culprits

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  • Democratic Progressive Party spokesperson Wu Zheng criticized Kuomintang Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ke Zhien and legislator Su Qingquan for abandoning orders to protect factory Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, calling them accomplices and culprits, once again harming vulnerable groups in Kaohsiung and Pingtung.
  • Wu Zheng pointed out that the Kuomintang first froze and deleted the budget of the weak, and now it has revealed the cheating behavior of abandoning orders, which is a political show of weak consumption.
  • Although Ke Zhien claimed that he would purchase an additional 600 boxes to show that he would "keep his word," Wu Zheng questioned his sincerity and pointed out that Democratic Progressive Party Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Lai Ruilong and Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Meng'an finally subscribed to resolve the crisis.

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Why It Matters

Due to budget disputes, the Kuomintang froze and deleted the vulnerable support budget, affecting the survival of Taiwan's support factories. As for the Democratic Progressive Party, President Lai Qingde took the lead in donating 200,000 yuan to subscribe. Subsequent social love poured in and the original purchase amount was achieved. However, it has recently been reported that sheltered factories in Kaohsiung and Pingtung areas have been abandoned by relevant KMT legislators, triggering political controversy.

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When the Kuomintang Central Committee was questioned about abandoning orders to protect the factory's Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, Ke Zhien said she would buy more and "keep her word." (File photo)

The Kuomintang's budget freeze and increase affected the Mid-Autumn Festival orders for shelter factories across Taiwan. Party Chairman Cheng Li-wen announced that she would take over all orders. However, there were successive reports of shelter factories in Pingtung and Kaohsiung being abandoned. DPP spokesperson Wu Zhengjin lashed out that Kuomintang Gaoping legislators Ke Zhien and Su Qingquan were not only accomplices, but also the culprits. They had harmed the weak in Kaohsiung and Pingtung for the second time and had no integrity at all.

Kuomintang Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ke Zhien said yesterday that if this happens, he will purchase an additional 600 boxes, emphasizing that caring for vulnerable groups "does what we say."

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Wu Zheng pointed out that the Kuomintang first maliciously froze and deleted budgets, affecting the livelihood of shelter factories across Taiwan, and now it has abandoned orders to defraud the vulnerable. Previously, Taichung Mayor Lu Hsiu-yen was slapped in the face for maliciously spreading rumors that the Presidential Office had abandoned the order; Fu Kun-chi, the chief convenor of the Kuomintang League in the Legislative Yuan, also had to apologize after the controversy spread; KMT Chairman Cheng Lai-wen even called for an order for 15,000 boxes of sheltered factories. Now the truth is revealed. The Kuomintang first cuts the budget of the weak and then deceives the weak. It is completely a political show of consuming the weak, which is very abhorrent.

Wu Zheng emphasized that after the budget was cut and frozen by Blue and White, President Lai Qingde donated 200,000 yuan from his own pocket to attract more people. In less than two weeks, a lot of love and kindness poured in, reaching the amount originally planned by the Presidential Palace to purchase, so that love will not be interrupted by the budget cuts by Blue and White. At that time, Blue and White maliciously deleted and froze the budget to help disadvantaged groups. Many legislators in the Kuomintang who were running for county and mayor this year, including Ke Zhien, Su Qingquan, Wu Zongxian, Xie Longjie, Zhang Jiajun, Chen Yuzhen, and Xu Xinying were all accomplices and accomplices, and they did not say a word to help disadvantaged groups.

Wu Zheng pointed out that he did not expect to hear that two sheltered factories in Gaoping were "abandoned" by the Kuomintang. In the end, the Democratic Progressive Party's Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Lai Ruilong and the Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Pan Meng'an came to subscribe to resolve the crisis. The DPP continues to support the disadvantaged in doing public welfare. On the other hand, Ke Zhien and Su Qingquan have once again become "abandoners" who defraud the disadvantaged. The bad behavior of Ke Zhien and Su Qingquan is no longer worthy of being legislators who should speak for the people. The people will also use their votes to cast aside the KMT candidates who bully the weak and have no integrity in the county and mayor elections at the end of the year.

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AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Ke Zhien will increase the purchase of 600 boxes of protective factory Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes based on his remarks

    Possible · Within weeks

  • This incident will become a focus of discussion in the mayoral elections in Kaohsiung and Pingtung counties at the end of the year.

    Likely · Within months

Open Questions

  • Are there really sheltered factories abandoned by KMT legislators?
  • Will Ke Zhien buy 600 more boxes of sheltered workshop gift boxes as he said?
  • Will this incident affect the county and mayor elections at the end of the year?

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