When President Lai Qingde went to the countryside recently to support the election, he raised the demand for cooperation between local county mayors and the central government. In fact, since Lai took office, conflicts between the central and local governments have emerged one after another, including the dispute over the revision of the fiscal revenue and expenditure division law, the China Union poisoning oil incident, and China Fire's "gas increase and coal removal" offensive and defense. Significant political opposition broke out in many aspects.
Since President Lai took office, due to the "double minority" political situation between the government and the opposition, more than half of the opposition parties in the Legislative Yuan have joined forces to promote a number of controversial bills, including the Congressional Powers Expansion Bill, the Financial Planning Law Amendment, the Island Construction Ordinance Amendment, the Referendum Law Amendment, etc. In more than two years, Executive President Toh Wing-tai has failed to countersign bills passed on the third reading of the Legislative Yuan eight times.
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The review of the central government's general budget in the past two years has also been severely delayed. Blue and White teamed up to return the 2014 central government's general budget six times and was blocked for 49 days. The annual budget was cut by up to 207.6 billion yuan and frozen as much as 160.7 billion yuan. The scale of deletions and freezes was the highest in history. The 2015 central government's general budget was delayed for as long as 351 days. It was not completed until nearly two-thirds of the year, setting an example of the latest adoption in history.
In the local government department, Executive Director Zhuo Rongtai recently announced that Taichung Taiwan Central Thermal Power Plant will be coal-free one year ahead of schedule, and six coal-fired units will be decommissioned and retained as emergency backup units. However, Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan said that "adding six gas-fired units is equal to one more medium-fired power plant." The Taichung City Government hopes to "add one and dismantle one", hoping that President Zhuo will listen. Recently, Taipower threatened not to issue licenses. Recently, Taipower has been dismantling coal-fired units No. 1 and 2, and Lu expressed his approval.
After the Zhonglian poisonous oil incident broke out, it quickly escalated into a political attack and defense between the central and local governments. The Taichung City Government focused on the inability to control the border at the source, questioning the omission of the central inspection list and trying to cover up the list; the central government pointed out that local governments have the responsibility for routine random inspections and inspections, and quickly promoted the amendment of the Food Safety and Hygiene Management Act.
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan first posted on social media in mid-July, "Force me to eat poisonous oil, force me to take to the streets." The Kuomintang then announced that it would call on people to go to Kaidao on July 25 with the slogan "I am a human being, I fight against poisonous Taiwan" and pointed the finger at the central government. The Democratic Progressive Party criticized that food safety issues should return to law revision, inspection and system reform, rather than political mobilization.
Taitung County Magistrate Rao Qingling participated in the Straits Forum on video, and the Mainland Affairs Council requested the Ministry of the Interior to investigate and deal with it in accordance with the "Cross-Strait People's Relations Ordinance". Liang Wenjie, deputy chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, bluntly said, "Taiwanese people hardly eat pineapples and sugar apples. They are agricultural products that the CCP relies on." After being criticized by people in the blue camp, he apologized for the "language error". Afterwards, the Ministry of the Interior did not impose any disciplinary action. Qiu Chuizheng, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, said that Rao Qingling did not make a political speech, but was talking about the livelihood of farmers and was wronged. Rao Qingling was grateful that the incident ended successfully.
