The picture shows Jiang Qichen, Vice President of the Legislative Yuan, who is also a candidate for mayor of Taichung in the nine-in-one local elections launched by the Kuomintang at the end of this year.
The new legislative session of the Legislative Yuan will begin tomorrow. More than 40 pro-government groups have announced that they will gather outside the Legislative Yuan tomorrow night, calling on the Blue and White legislators to "don't mess up" and to expeditiously review this year's additional budget and social welfare budget of the Executive Yuan and pass the personnel approval bill of the Central Ministries. Regarding the eight current legislators of the Kuomintang running for county mayor, the civil society criticized them for only following orders to block budgets, bills and personnel cases, and even refused to reveal the information of publicly funded assistants. They were "not responsible" at all. They also pointed out that if the supplementary budget is not passed next month, they will be asked to withdraw from the election.
The 6th session of the 11th Legislative Yuan is about to start tomorrow (29th). More than 40 civil rights groups including the Taiwan Civic Front have announced that they will hold a demonstration tomorrow night "Don't let the Legislative Yuan open, and citizens sound the alarm after work." They demand that this year's supplementary budget for the central government's general budget be passed before the end of October. Eight KMT legislators, including Ke Zhi'en and Jiang Qichen, are named. Whether the independent defense and social welfare budgets such as drones can be passed in time will be regarded as a "qualification test" for running for county mayors.
In this regard, Zhang Honglin, CEO of the Citizen Oversight Congress Alliance, said in an interview today that the opposition group finally passed the central government's general budget for this year (2026) in the third reading a month ago. However, this is only "half of the task" because there are only three months left before the end of the year, but the annual state-owned enterprises and non-operating fund budgets are still stuck. At the same time, they also use the name of "parliamentary supervision" to retaliate against the ruling party politically, creating the public perception that "the government has not done anything" and claiming credit from the public.
Zhang Honglin criticizes: The eight mayors of Lan County will become a voting force that "bullies good, fears evil, and lacks responsibility"
Zhang Honglin criticized these Kuomintang legislators who intend to run for the nine-in-one county mayor election at the end of the year. Under the control of the Legislative Yuan caucus, they not only "shrunk" and lacked the courage to self-dialect or criticize internally, but also became a voting force that "bullied good and feared evil and lacked responsibility"; Neither of them has disclosed the employment information of each publicly funded assistant. They bluntly stated that if they become legislators, they will keep the matter a secret. Not only will the assistants be at extremely high risk of being infiltrated, but if they have the county government's huge personnel hiring power in the future, they may become a national security breach targeted by local factions, foreign forces, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Lawyer Lai Zhongqiang, convener of the United Economic Democracy think tank, said that Blue and White legislators have repeatedly obstructed the personnel consent power of central agencies and ministries, including the paralyzed Supervisory Yuan and its subordinate National Human Rights Commission and Integrity Commission, as well as the National Communications Commission, Personal Data Protection Commission and Public Television Directors and Supervisors Review Committee. This not only affects the impeachment, punishment and implementation of the Sunshine Act of supervisory power, but also affects the review and change of licenses of broadcasting and television operators, affects the legality of public television operations, and may even endanger the European Union's recognition of personal data protection.
Lai Zhongqiang: Blue and White should stop continuing to paralyze state agencies and pass personnel cases as soon as possible
Lai Zhongqiang bluntly stated that Blue and White should stop continuing to paralyze state agencies, fill the vacancies of the Constitutional Court justices, the Central Election Commission, the Fair Council and other units through personnel cases as soon as possible, so that they can resume operations as soon as possible. They should also pass the Executive Yuan’s additional budget of up to 600 billion yuan for this year by the end of next month. If the additional budget cannot be passed by then, citizen groups will not rule out asking the eight Blue Committee members who are running for county mayors to announce their withdrawal.
