The new session of the Legislative Yuan opened yesterday (29th). Executive President Zhuo Rongtai led the heads of ministries and commissions to the Legislative Yuan to deliver policy addresses. As a result, the blue and white legislators were collectively absent. The exposure of exaggerated images triggered heated discussions. Afterwards, Kuomintang legislator Wang Yumin said that they boycotted Zhuo Kui's policy address by absenting himself in order to avoid "unnecessary issues" that would affect the election at the end of the year. In this regard, Shen Rongqin, an associate professor at York University in Canada, said that from Wang Yumin's words, we can know that Blue and White are not unaware that they have been destroying the constitution and disrupting the government in the past. Now they are trying to appear "normal" in order to win the support of middle voters.
Shen Rongqin posted on Facebook today (30th), "Kuomintang legislator Wang Yumin said something interesting. She said that the reason why the KMT legislators asked Executive Director Zhuo Rongtai to come to the stage to report at the Legislative Yuan session yesterday without strong boycott was because at the end of the year In the local elections, many county and mayor candidates from the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party had low support rates. In order to avoid extraneous matters and affect the election, the Kuomintang Legislative Yuan caucus decided to simply absent themselves and not physically block Zhuo Rongtai's policy address. "
"In the past two years, the Kuomintang and the People's Party legislators have been killing all parties in the Legislative Yuan. From unconstitutional power expansion bills, refusal to review the budget, freeze and deletion of the defense budget, blocking the Supreme Court Conference, the Supervisory Yuan and the NCC, etc., it is the most chaotic in the history of Taiwan's constitutional government. It has never been done before. He has not heard of any concessions. Now, under the pressure of the local elections, he has voluntarily given up fighting to prevent the Executive Yuan from reporting, but continues to block the Supervisory Committee members, including Chen Yongxing, the Supervisory Committee nominee who has always been close to Huang Guochang and Ko Wenzhe. "
He went on to say, "This shows that the Blue and White legislators are not ignorant of the mistakes of destroying the constitution, refusing to review the budget, and slashing the defense budget in the past, but they believe that their actions will be supported by Blue and White voters. Only when the Blue and Green support levels are similar, they must win the support of the median voters, and they will try to appear rational and normal. But the KMT legislators also know very well that in addition to swinging between Blue and Green, the so-called median voters also A large number of people have no interest in politics. Therefore, it is more important to avoid physical conflicts in the Legislative Yuan than to continue to block the Control Yuan. Because these middle voters who do not have a deep understanding of government operations will definitely be affected by the scenes of physical conflicts in the Legislative Yuan, it is okay to continue to paralyze the Control Yuan, but they must not let the scenes of their fights appear in the media. "
In the end, Shen Rongqin said bluntly, "Although not everyone agrees with Wang Yumin's views, her views on Blue and White and centrist voters still make sense. In other words, the voters of Taipei City and New Taipei City have a heavy responsibility. The more you support the DPP's mayoral candidate, the more pressure you can put on the KMT candidate, and the more Taiwanese people can get a relatively normal KMT and KMT legislative caucus."
