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Nov.10,2000 --- To: Trent
Lott, Denny Hastert |
Dear¡@Mr. Trent Lott, If just for the sake of political stability, it appears appropriate for President Chen to reconsider the possibility at the juncture of sharing power with the opposition that could jeopardize Chen¡¦s promise on election. Calling President Chen Shui-bian¡¦s apology in a televised speech ¡§lip service,¡¨ the opposition alliance said they would continue their push for the proposal to recall President Chen. The inflamed opposition leaders said that they would not only pursue the recall plan but would also speed up the view of Law Governing Legislators¡¦ Exercise of Power needed to legitimize the recall. It is a good insist in his apology address. Chen gave no signs of any willingness to reverse the administration¡¦s decision to cancel the nuclear project. In our viewpoint; it would be the only way to end the political wrangling between the Chen government and the opposition, which President-head system or reform constitution on President¡¦s rights in government. Under the violence of superpower¡¦s legislature, we should give the President another chance to reveal his dictatorial leadership style. We heard the opposition politicians contend that the way Chen rules has violated the sprit of the ROC¡¦s dual-head government system, because of Chen¡¦s ¡§not so much respect legislators¡¦ emotion.¡¨ Fifty years KMT¡¦s rigid ideological position that, despite of whole Taiwanese people¡¦s feeling on its administration, new President Chen needs do work in people wills over promise on election. Yielding to mounting calls for stability, opposition lawmakers backed down on their threat to introduce a bill aimed at recalling President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu. But the majority Kuomintang (KMT) legislative caucus maintained that it is no paper tiger and has gathered more than the total necessary votes to pass the measure at ¡§an auspicious time.¡¨ ¡§We found it more urgent to review bills providing legal bases for various post-quake reconstruction efforts,¡¨ said KMT legislative whip Tseng Yung-chuan. Tseng denied links between the softened stance and an ongoing wave of anti-nuclear movements. Nearly 1,000 protesters besieged the parliamentary compound in Taipei for the entire day, condemning the KMT-dominated Legislature for its criticism of President Chen and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over the energy policy. They threatened to stage a campaign recalling those deputies who seek to salvage the ill-fated nuclear power plant. People said that the opposition parties would listen to their voices and think twice before pushing for the motion. Nov. 8, 2000 --- Opposition lawmakers took advantage of their numerical superiority in the Legislative Yuan yesterday to formally recommend that the Control Yuan impeach Premier Chang Chun-hsiung and other cabinet members that stepping up the ¡§recall¡¨ promotion. In short, legislative behavior was looked as unreasonable ¡§political violence¡¨ over people¡¦s wills, polls show an increasing number of people are sympathetic with Chen¡¦s predicament. President Chen Shui-bian appealed to the KMT to let its vice chairman Vicent Siew attend the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Unfortunately, the party¡¦s chairman has changed the decision for allowing Siew to act as the President¡¦s APEC envoy, because President Chen and Lien Chan¡¦s disgraceful meeting after President Chen urged to reconsider his position on Siew¡¦s appointment to attend the summit in addition to repeating his apology for the timing of the announcement for halting the nuclear project. Siew, a KMT¡¦s vice chairman and former Premier, the first choice for taking part in the APEC meeting. This is not the reason for rejecting as Taiwan¡¦s special envoy to the upcoming meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Bruneu. Siew, who services as vice chairman for KMT, would have required approval from his party before being allowed to attend the meeting on behalf of the new government. Tensions between the ruling and opposition parties escalated as both sides headed for an inevitable showdown in the legislature over the proposal to recall President Chen Shui-bian. Hundreds of anti-nuclear and environmental groups members protested in front of Legislative Yuan, demanding pro-recall lawmakers to step down. Prompted by what they called a populist rally generated by DPP, the opposition vowed to go ahead with the recall petition. If ¡§legislature¡¦s violence¡¨ could be solved by asking the Council of Grand Justices to rule on whether the executive body¡¦s decision to scrap the nuclear power plant was constitutional, that Premier Chang Chung-hsiung intended to defuse political tensions between the ruling and opposition forces in the legislature within the legal system is correct. In Taiwan, its democratic system learned from the United States and western countries; so that new government needs your suggestion.
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