KMT parliamentary candidate questions Ministry of Justice’s standards for investigating bribery: “Blue and green”

Kuomintang’s Taipei City Council candidate Lai Yiren and New Taipei City Council candidate Ho Yuan-kai held a press conference today (12th) at the Kuomintang on “Green Can You Can’t, Questioning the Difference Between Blue and Green in the Ministry of Justice’s Bribery Detection Standards”. They questioned the DPP’s attempt to undermine the long-established red line of bribery in this year’s election, which caused a chilling effect on the blue camp, but completely indulged the green camp. The two emphasized that the DPP should not have the final say on whether it constitutes election bribery, and called on the Ministry of Justice to have consistent standards.

Lai Yiren questioned. Minister of Justice Zheng Mingqian said that 30 yuan is only the threshold for detecting bribery. If it does not reach the threshold, it must be election bribery, which caused an uproar in the public opinion. Everyone is asking what is the standard for election bribery? In the past, everyone hoped that the Ministry of Justice would not indulge in bribery, but now the Ministry of Justice has completely indulged in it. What criteria constitutes election bribery? Do you have a DPP card?

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He Yuankai said that the definition of vote-buying in this year's election is particularly strange. It seems that it is to support blue and not green. Only the green camp can do it, and no other camp can. Candidates from the blue camp held an event and invited simple bean curds to eat. They were caught and considered to be vote bribery, which has caused a lot of controversy now.

He Yuankai pointed out that in the past, it was customary for people to send lottery gifts to the community during Mid-Autumn Festival activities. This year, due to the strange standards for electoral bribery, no one dared to give gifts. The Ministry of Justice’s standards are very vague, leaving everyone at a loss. The Ministry of Justice should make it clear to the outside world.

Regarding the KMT's New Taipei City Councilor Huang Yongchang who was found guilty of bribery for sending noodles to the customs, He Yuankai showed a photo and emphasized that the DPP's New Taipei City Councilors Liao Yikun and Gao Naiyun also sent noodles, so why only the blue noodles and not the green ones? Where are the legal department standards? If the KMT candidates are punished for sending bean curd and Guanmiao noodles, we should also punish the DPP candidates for sending nutritious sandwiches and noodles.