The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has plans for a new campaign dubbed the "new sunshine politics movement," with the aim of revamping the DPP's image of a party with integrity.
The party will hold a conference on Sunday to discuss reform and will propose the addition of a special article to the party's platform asking all members to avoid corruption and uphold standards of personal integrity.
In the special article, the DPP will ask its legislators to quit other jobs and become professional lawmakers, to avoid any suspicion that they may take advantage of their legislative positions to enrich themselves. High-ranking party officials and government officials will be asked to place their property into trust.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUEI, TAIPEI TIMES
DPP Secretary-General Lin Chia-lung (
Meanwhile, it appeared yesterday that former premier Frank Hsieh (
Hsieh had a closed-door meeting with DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun yesterday after the party's weekly central standing committee.
After the meeting Hsieh said that he could feel the sincerity of the DPP and was willing to reconsider making himself available for the mayoral race.
"Now that there is a candidate who has a strong will to run for Taipei mayor, I think all DPP members should support him," Hsieh said. "But if this person does not sign up for the primary and the DPP asks me to run, I might consider doing it for the party."
Hsieh was referring to former DPP legislator Shen Fu-hsiung (沈富雄), who had picked up his primary application and was ready to register.
Hsieh added he did not want to see two DPP members fight each other in the primary.
"I wish the DPP could be united like before," Hsieh said.
Several Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials including Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) are to be summoned for questioning and then transferred to prosecutors for holding an illegal assembly in Taipei last night, the Taipei Police said today. Chu and two others hosted an illegal assembly and are to be requested to explain their actions, the Taipei City Police Department's Zhongzheng (中正) First Precinct said, referring to a protest held after Huang Lu Chin-ju (黃呂錦茹), KMT Taipei's chapter director, and several other KMT staffers were questioned for alleged signature forgery in recall petitions against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators. Taipei prosecutors had filed
Taiwan would welcome the return of Honduras as a diplomatic ally if its next president decides to make such a move, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday. “Of course, we would welcome Honduras if they want to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan after their elections,” Lin said at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, when asked to comment on statements made by two of the three Honduran presidential candidates during the presidential campaign in the Central American country. Taiwan is paying close attention to the region as a whole in the wake of a
President William Lai (賴清德) has appointed former vice president Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) to attend the late Pope Francis’ funeral at the Vatican City on Saturday on his behalf, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today. The Holy See announced Francis’ funeral would take place on Saturday at 10am in St Peter’s Square. The ministry expressed condolences over Francis’ passing and said that Chen would represent Taiwan at the funeral and offer condolences in person. Taiwan and the Vatican have a long-standing and close diplomatic relationship, the ministry said. Both sides agreed to have Chen represent Taiwan at the funeral, given his Catholic identity and
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday established a friendship group with their counterparts in Ukraine to promote parliamentary exchanges between the two countries. A ceremony in Taipei for the Taiwan-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Association, initiated by DPP Legislator Chen Kuan-ting (陳冠廷), was attended by lawmakers and officials, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois Wu (吳志中) and European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan Director Lutz Gullner. The increasingly dire situation in Ukraine is a global concern, and Taiwan cannot turn its back when the latter is in need of help, as the two countries share many common values and interests,
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