The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is eroding Taiwan’s democracy, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said today, ahead of a meeting tomorrow with Taiwan People's Party Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) to discuss how to “return democracy to Taiwan.”
In addition to the domestic political situation, the two are to also discuss issues such as US tariffs, Chu said.
In a Facebook post today, Chu said that the ongoing investigations of several KMT members for a recall forgery case are an example of political repression by the DPP, eroding Taiwan’s democratic rule of law.
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This comes less than a week after Chu and other KMT officials are alleged to have organized an illegal demonstration outside of the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office last Thursday in support of KMT members under investigation for the recall forgery case.
Huang Lu Chin-ju (黃呂錦茹), KMT Taipei's chapter director, along with chapter secretary-general Chu Wen-ching (初文卿), chapter secretary Yao Fu-wen (姚富文) and first district committee executive director Tseng Fan-chuan (曾繁川) were detained for their alleged involvement in falsifying signatures in a campaign to recall DPP lawmakers in Taipei.
Huang Lu Chin-ju and Tseng were eventually released without bail but Chu and Yao were detained and are being held incommunicado.
Chu said President William Lai (賴清德) and the DPP are using political motives as the basis for judgment and seeking to use political means to eliminate the opposition.
Prosecutors are a political tool and the DPP, unable to control the Legislative Yuan, has resorted to recall campaigns to remove the KMT, Chu said.
Instead of seeking unity, Lai is “hunting down” domestic enemies, Chu added.
Comparing the DPP to the Chinese Communist Party, Chu said that while the latter “red communist party” threatens the country’s security, the “green communist party” undermines its development and unity.
Chu called on those “who care about Taiwan’s democracy” to gather on Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard on Saturday in a demonstration to “oppose the Green Communist Party and return democracy to Taiwan.”
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