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BackDPP Legislator Fan Yun participated in the citizens' march, calling for oversight of Congress and support for the social welfare budget
DPP Legislator Fan Yun participated in the citizens' march, calling for oversight of Congress and support for the social welfare budget
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DPP Legislator Fan Yun participated in the citizens' march, calling for oversight of Congress and support for the social welfare budget

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  • Fan Yun, a legislator from the Democratic Progressive Party, participated in a citizens' group demonstration, calling for oversight of Congress and support for the Executive Yuan's 21.5 billion yuan social welfare increase budget.
  • She criticized the opposition parties for boycotting personnel plans and budget reviews, emphasized the importance of national security and taking care of the people, and maintained the spirit of the Sunflower student movement.

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The Executive Yuan proposed a budget of 21.5 billion yuan to increase social welfare, aiming to benefit 3.18 million grassroots people. The current slow pace of the Legislative Yuan's budget review has caused concern among citizen groups and ruling party legislators.

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Fan Yun, a legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, participated in the "Legislative Yuan meeting should not be disrupted, citizens sound the alarm after get off work" parade launched by the civil society tonight. In her speech, she said that the Executive Yuan's social welfare increase budget of 21.5 billion yuan has benefited a total of 3.18 million grassroots people. "Everyone remembers 318. Number? Sunflower 318! "From Sunflower's anti-black box service trade spirit to fighting for better living conditions for 3.18 million people, this means that we must protect the country, not just for so-called national security, but ultimately to take care of all people.

Fan Yun said with a smile at the beginning that everyone has to come to the demonstration after work because there is a terrible Congress that needs everyone to supervise. The Supervisory Yuan is an important organ of constitutional government. The opposition party indiscriminately rejected all 27 Supervisory Committee nominees in order to abolish the Supervisory Committee. All legislators of the Democratic Progressive Party support the abolition of the Supervisory Committee. However, if it wants to abolish the Supervisory Committee, it should seriously amend the constitution. There are many supporting legislative amendments to be done. For example, where should the National Human Rights Commission and the original supervisory power be placed? However, the majority of the opposition parties did not seriously want to amend the constitution.

Fan Yun said that as a long-term member of the Education and Culture Committee, she has seen many disadvantages, such as the unfair salary of acting teachers. The report of the Supervisory Committee has helped her a lot in political affairs, not to mention the issue of retroactive rights of child sexual assault victims that she is concerned about. In fact, the existence of the Supervisory Yuan actually plays a supervisory role for high-level civil servants and the ruling party in the government. However, the indiscriminate and comprehensive blocking of the Supervisory Committee is really a big problem for this Congress.

But Fan Yun also said that this is not the first time. Previously, there were cases involving the justice, NCC members, and public security personnel. The personnel of these important agencies have been repeatedly boycotted. Thank you to the citizens, thank you to the bluebirds for their willingness to supervise here, and thank you for the unsuccessful recall. Although the situation became better later, it did not really improve.

Fan Yun also said that taxation has indeed increased, and this economic dividend must of course be shared by all people, so why can there be a supplementary budget this time? However, this is also because of some strange chaos in the Legislative Yuan. The supplementary budget that should be reviewed at the end of last year was delayed for 351 days, so of course there are some debts that need to be dealt with, such as Taipower and China National Petroleum Corporation, which absorbed a lot of room for price increases during the war.

Fan Yun said that in the past, Taiwan was a welfare state for the military, public education, and education because the retirement system was particularly good for the military, public education, and education. However, she did not think that the military, public education, and education should not be good, but that other professions should also be taken care of. Therefore, citizen groups have proposed that the national pension, farmers’ pension, etc. should be better cared for. These are important and specific contents shared by all people.

Fan Yun also admitted, "I'm still not satisfied enough, not good enough, and far from our ideal." At this moment, she is very worried whether the Blue and White majority will not review the additional budget like last year, because there are only 93 days left for this year's budget review. If there is no review within these 93 days, the money will not be used.

Fan Yun said that the Executive Yuan's 21.5 billion yuan social welfare budget has benefited a total of 3.18 million grassroots people. "Do you remember the number 318? Sunflower 318!" She thought, from Sunflower's anti-black box service trade spirit to fighting for better living conditions for 3.18 million people, this means that we must protect the country, not just for the so-called national security, but ultimately to be able to take care of all people.

Zhu Fuming, CEO of Black Bear College, said, why can’t the defense budget be delayed? Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army of China. It is a very serious matter to annex Taiwan. The Kuomintang deleted the "AI brain" and "universal ammunition" in this supplementary defense budget. If a crisis occurs, it will take several months to defend. As a result, the Kuomintang deleted even this. What's more important is that the Kuomintang deleted the drones and accurately deleted Taiwan's most important defense budget. If the eight KMT legislators who are running for county mayor cannot pass this additional budget, let alone say that they can protect Tainan and Kaohsiung, they will not even need 4 million drones.

Fan Gengwei, executive member of the Taiwan Civic Front, went on to say that if the supplementary budget cannot be passed by the end of October, the eight KMT legislators will die. The Inspection Yuan has the Integrity Committee to supervise politicians, the National Human Rights Commission to protect human rights, and the functions of impeaching civil servants who violate the law, but now they are all paralyzed. The Supervisory Yuan filed for vindication of an unjust case against an aborigine. The main character, Li Xiuhua, spoke in her ethnic language and there was no translation, which led to misunderstanding. If the Supervisory Yuan is paralyzed, its function of proving that public agencies violate the law will disappear.

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  • The Legislative Yuan needs to complete the additional budget review within 93 days

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  • Can the Legislative Yuan complete the supplementary budget review within 93 days?
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