Democratic Progressive Party legislator Guo Yuqing. (File photo)
The Kuomintang has recently launched a series of "drug smear" attacks against DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang. The Kuomintang's Health and Environmental Protection Committee has also arranged for eight agencies including the Ministry of Health and Welfare to conduct a special report on drug harm reduction. It has been questioned that there is a risk of setting up a private torture chamber and using the power of the Legislative Yuan to conduct election manipulation. Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Guo Yuqing today criticized the Kuomintang convenor Chen Jinghui Ming's big move to arrange special reports for eight ministries and committees. The purpose was not to care about public health policies at all, but to be a completely useless political operation in an attempt to position the Legislative Yuan committee as an extended battlefield in the Taipei City election campaign.
Chen Jinghuiming, convener of the National Health and Environmental Protection Committee of the Kuomintang, arranged for the Minister of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Justice, the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ocean Commission, the Coast Guard Coast Guard Office of the Ocean Commission, and the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior to make a special report and prepare for questions on "the effectiveness of the implementation of harm reduction plans and the amount of drug addiction treatment and the improvement of drug borders, schools and related prevention and control."
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Guo Yuqing pointed out that for the sake of the election, Lanying recently deliberately took Committee Member Shen Boyang's past academic discussion of international prevention trends from a criminological perspective and maliciously smeared it out of context. She would like to remind the Kuomintang not to elect such a show-off in the election. Drug harm reduction programs (such as methadone replacement therapy) are the public health achievements of Taiwan's long-standing cross-party political seniors and the medical community, and are implemented even in blue-leaning counties and cities.
Guo Yuqing criticized that in order to protect Mayor Chiang who has plummeted in the polls, the entire party has not hesitated to stigmatize the profession and even made ridiculous remarks such as "social workers distribute drugs", which has seriously harmed frontline medical and social workers. Faced with the malicious smear campaign from the blue camp, the green camp will never follow suit. The DPP's response strategy tomorrow will fully return to professionalism and scientific data. DPP legislators will also require the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Justice and other ministries to speak with concrete results, thoroughly expose the blue camp's double standards and political rumors, and be the most solid backing for front-line professionals and social workers.
Guo Yuqing called on the Kuomintang to stop, otherwise it will only make Jiang Wanan’s support worse.
Guo Yuqing called on the Kuomintang to stop. If it continues to use the power of the committee to turn the committee into a torture chamber, continue to spread rumors and smear, and distort the harm reduction plan that is being implemented by the Beijing Municipal Government, it will only make Jiang Wanan's support worse.
