The militia group calls on Jiang Qichen, the 8 blue committee members, to "show their noble hands" and withdraw from the election if the supplementary defense budget is not passed.

The Executive Yuan proposed a supplementary budget of 607.6 billion yuan for this year. The review process was completed by the Legislative Yuan committee last week. The government and the opposition are scheduled to complete the third reading on November 20. The United Economic Democracy think tank today called on the eight Kuomintang legislators participating in the county and mayor elections to support the Ministry of National Defense's additional budget so that the national army can have a large number of drones to prevent the People's Liberation Army from landing. If the additional budget is not passed by the 20th or is deleted or frozen, Jiang Qichen and other eight blue committee members should withdraw from the election directly.

The United for Economic Democracy held a press conference at the Legislative Yuan today to analyze eight "red beaches" where the Chinese People's Liberation Army amphibious troops may land on a large scale, including Toucheng, Zhuangwei to Lize Beach in Yilan, Nanliao Beach in Hsinchu, Jiana Beach in the Gaomei Wetland in Taichung, Mailiao Port in Yunlin, Xishu Beach in Tainan, Kaohsiung Forest Park and Xiziwan, Jialu Tang in Pingtung, and Guningtou in Kinmen.

Lai Zhongqiang, the convener of the Economic League, pointed out that the "Red Beach" needs drone protection. The eight Kuomintang legislators who are running for county mayor include Yilan County Mayor candidate Wu Zongxian, Hsinchu County Mayor candidate Xu Xinying, Taichung Mayor candidate Jiang Qichen, Yunlin County Governor candidate Zhang Jiajun, Tainan Mayor candidate Xie Longjie, Kaohsiung Mayor candidate Ke Zhien, Pingtung County Governor candidate Su Qingquan, and Kinmen County Governor candidate Chen Yuzhen must "highly support" the 145.7 billion yuan defense budget.

Ji Dongyun, chairman of the Taiwan Security Development Association, said that the 145.7 billion yuan in additional defense budget covers important projects such as drones, unmanned boats, tactical intelligence integration, drone systems, ammunition replenishment, and the treatment of officers and soldiers. What is worrying is that the deletion and freezing proposals that have been sent to the hospital for processing actually include very important military-building projects for the national army.

Ji Dongyun questioned that Kuomintang legislator Liu Shubin proposed a reduction of more than 5.58 billion yuan from the drone procurement budget, and Kuomintang legislator Huang Jianbin proposed a total reduction of 890 million yuan from the Taiwan tactical network cross-domain intelligence integration project budget. He also proposed a reduction of more than 200 million yuan for the troop awareness application suite and a freeze of 10 million yuan, and even a proposal to freeze the budget for general weapons and combat readiness support equipment by 500 million yuan.

According to statistics, Huang Jianbin also froze the budget of smart vertical take-off and landing drones by 300 million yuan, the budget of portable drone countermeasures systems by 100 million yuan, the budget of four types of drones by 100 million yuan, and the budget of the second-generation maritime search tactical drone surveillance and reconnaissance system by 50 million yuan. A total of 6.67 billion yuan was deducted from three cases in the first round of review, and 1.06 billion yuan was frozen for six cases to be handled by the court. During the second round of party group consultations, new proposals for deletions and freezes can still be added.

Lai Zhongqiang said that the People's Liberation Army has increased its combat power across the sea to attack Taiwan. All the counties and cities participating in the eight Blue Committee elections have "red beaches." To deter the People's Liberation Army from landing, a large number of drones will be needed. The Democratic Progressive Party has 51 votes and the Kuomintang legislators, county and mayor candidates have 8 votes. The supplementary budget must be passed. If it fails to pass on November 20 or is significantly cut or frozen, it means that these eight KMT legislators do not support protecting their homeland, are not qualified to serve as county and city defense commanders, and will be cast aside by the people.