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2012 ELECTIONS: DPP
says it has papers proving KMT mobilization plans
OPERATION BLUE EAGLE: The KMT said the plan the
DPP was referring to was from the last election, but a DPP official said he had
documents dated Jan. 14
By Chen Huei-ping / Staff Reporter
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday showed documents that it said
proved the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was lying when it dismissed DPP
allegations that it plans to illegally mobilize people to cast votes in the Jan.
14 presidential and legislative elections.
Citing documents obtained from the KMT, DPP spokesperson Chen Chi-mai (³¯¨äÁÚ) told
a press conference that the minutes of a KMT campaign promotion showed that it
asked party members ¡§to form task forces to mobilize households to cast their
votes on Jan. 14.¡¨
¡§If the plan was an old project from four years ago as the KMT claimed, why did
it write ¡¥Jan. 14¡¦ on it ¡X which is the date of this year¡¦s poll?¡¨ Chen asked.
On Friday, the DPP said the KMT was planning the illegal mobilization of voters
on the day of the elections by providing transportation services and mobilizing
voters via text messages and telephone calls in a systematic, nationwide project
codenamed ¡§Blue Eagle.¡¨
At the time, KMT Culture and Communication Committee director Chuang Po-chun
(²ø§B¥ò) rebutted the accusation by saying that the ¡§Blue Eagle¡¨ plan was the name
of a KMT project four years ago that mobilized party members to cast their votes
in the 2008 presidential election.
Chen yesterday also showed a photo he said was taken on Dec. 6, when the KMT was
holding an election-related seminar in Greater Kaohsiung¡¦s Nanzih (·£±ê) and
Zuoying (¥ªÀç) districts. Saying that there was a red banner hanging in the
background in the picture reading, ¡§Blue Eagle Plan Seminar,¡¨ Chen added that it
suggested the ¡§Blue Eagle¡¨ project still existed.
¡§Chuang was lying to the public,¡¨ Chen said.
DPP spokesperson Kang Yu-cheng (±d¸Î¦¨) said the KMT plan was to form a 10-member
task force in every polling district to mobilize people to vote, adding that it
said in the KMT document: ¡§If it rains on election day, or for handicapped
voters, [task force members] can take voters to polling stations by scooter¡¨ and
that ¡§if they know of supporters who have not yet cast their votes, please go to
their homes and urge them to vote.¡¨
Saying it is a nationwide, large-scale and organized illegal action, which could
be a violation of election laws, Chen added that the DPP would file charges with
the Supreme Prosecutors¡¦ Office Special Investigation Division against the KMT
over the case.
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