Ke Wenzhe questions the delayed delivery of F-16V and calls on the government to review deductions

People's Party founding chairman Ko Wenzhe (left) signed autographs for supporters after visiting Tongxing Palace in Bade District, Taoyuan City. (Photo by reporter Zhou Minhong)

This morning, Taiwan People's Party founding chairman Ko Wenzhe accompanied Lin Yanliang, the party's parliamentary candidate for Taoyuan City's 3rd District (Bade District), to Da Nan Market to sweep the streets to vote. He was asked by the media about the arrival of two F-16Vs in Taiwan. He stressed that the government spent 240 billion yuan to buy 66 F-16Vs, and only two have arrived so far. "When will the other 64 come? The time has been obviously delayed. Do I need to deduct money?" I hope the government will make it clear to the outside world.

Ko Wenzhe said that there is no free lunch in the world, and he supports defense expenditure, focusing on "rationality, pragmatism, and science." The DPP originally used a special budget of 1.25 trillion yuan to prepare a military purchase budget, and the Legislative Yuan finally finalized it with 780 billion yuan. However, as far as he knows, the Legislative Yuan has passed the budget. The United States has not yet agreed to sell the more than 400 billion yuan budget part. We hope that the DPP will be pragmatic about the defense budget and should not cause the outside world to doubt "what the DPP is actually doing" by saying "things that have been paid for have not arrived, and they have budgeted for them but they have not said they will sell them to you."

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