On the eve of National Day on the 7th, People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang held a press conference titled "Six Questions to Lai's Government on the Eve of National Day: Are the People Really Living Better?" and put forward six major suggestions to President Lai. (Photo by reporter Zhang Jiaming)
National Day is our country’s National Day in three days. To this end, People’s Party Chairman Huang Guochang today said that he and all members of the party group have received invitations and are determined to attend the National Day Ceremony at the weekend. However, he also issued a statement asking President Lai Chengde to unite the country and the people, sincerely abide by the Constitution, and indeed nominate cross-party justices to safeguard the Constitutional Court and respect the judicial system. He should also face up to the gap between the rich and the poor in society, implement the promise of building new social housing, and practice residential justice.
The People's Party Central Committee held a press conference today (7th) titled "Six Questions to the Lai Government on the Eve of National Day". People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang called on President Lai Qingde to stop political infighting and govern pragmatically from specific aspects such as economic distribution, residential justice, democratic constitutionalism, judicial credibility and national unity, so that the people can experience a better life.
Huang Guochang said that at the Central Party Committee of the People's Party, he and the members of the Legislative Yuan caucus have received invitations to attend the National Day, and they will definitely attend the National Day Ceremony on Saturday. However, before the National Day, he made six suggestions, hoping that President Lai Ching-te can truly unite the country and lead Taiwan in the normal direction.
He first pointed out that Taiwan's semiconductor industry has achieved fruitful results under the AI wave, and the stock market and per capita GDP have hit new highs. However, Piketty's "World Inequality Report" this year (2026) pointed out that the top 10% of income earners in Taiwan take away nearly half of the country's income, and the grassroots people After working hard for half a life, you can only get 11.2%; in terms of wealth distribution, the richest 10% control more than 60% of the wealth, while the people at the bottom only have 4.3%; in addition, 70% of my country's workers have lower wages than the average, and the wealth gap between the richest and the poorest 5% of families is "as high as 150 times."
As society's declining birth rate intensifies and housing prices continue to soar, Huang Guochang said that there were 200,000 newborns in Taiwan 10 years ago, but now they have halved. This is not because young people do not love having children, but because their life choices are a vote of no confidence in the future. The Democratic Progressive Party government once promised to build 130,000 social housing and launched the "New Qing'an Loan". Unexpectedly, the former became a slogan, while the latter did not help to cool down housing prices, turning residential justice into a tool of vote fraud, stifling the imagination of the young generation's efforts, hopes and dreams.
Huang Guochang further pointed out that Lai Qingde's arbitrary abuse of justice to pursue political parties and his disdain for the third reading of the law in Parliament not only destroyed democracy and the rule of law, but also led to the bankruptcy of social trust and frequent confrontations and conflicts among the people; Sweden's "International Democratic and Electoral Association" The latest report from the Research Institute for Assistance to Justice (IDEAS) pointed out that Taiwan’s judicial independence performance has dropped significantly. The latest poll from National Chung Cheng University also showed that only 33% of the people’s positive evaluation of judges’ fair trials has left the word “party and government irreconcilable” imprinted in the hearts of the people.
Huang Guochang bluntly stated that no one born and raised in Taiwan would accept the CCP's suppression. He called on the Democratic Progressive Party, led by Lai Ching-te, not to seek internal enemies to create hatred and label those who oppose it as "CCP travelers." He shouted to Lai, "You are the president of the Republic of China and should be a president who can unite Taiwan." To this end, he put forward six major suggestions on behalf of the People's Party, hoping that President Lai would stop tearing society apart:
First, stop manipulating social antagonisms and truly unite the people of the country again.
Second, we must face up to the problems caused by the gap between rich and poor and solve the serious problem of uneven social distribution.
Third, we must abide by the Constitution sincerely and promulgate the laws passed by the Legislative Yuan on the third reading in accordance with the law.
Fourth, please ask President Lai to nominate cross-party, truly independent and professional justices to make our Constitutional Court more consistent with the Constitution.
Fifth, please extend the black hand of politics outside the judiciary and stop handling cases corruptly.
Sixth, please fulfill your promise to build new social housing and return housing justice to the younger generation.
He finally said that every Taiwanese is a citizen of a maritime country. We have never been afraid of accepting challenges, but we hope that the helmsman can truly listen to the people's voices, and the president who unites Taiwan should let every different voice be heard. This is democratic and beautiful Taiwan. He sincerely hopes that President Lai can respond to these issues, and also hopes that President Lai will no longer tear society apart for his own selfish interests, and be a president who can truly unite Taiwan and the country.
