China News Service, February 23 (Xinhua) According to Taiwan media reports, the Kuomintang League and the People's Party League had a dinner at Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan" on the evening of the 22nd. People's Party Chairman Ko Wenzhe also attended. The blue and white parties had a pleasant atmosphere and aimed to establish a communication channel.
Attendees at the two-party caucus dinner included Kuomintang League chief Fu Kunqi, secretary-general Hong Mengkai, and chief deputy secretary-general Lin Siming. On the KMT side, there were party chairman Ke Wenzhe, caucus chief Huang Guochang, deputy chief convenor Huang Shanshan and secretary-general Wu Chuncheng. The two parties met 1 hour and 15 minutes.
In an interview after the meeting, Ke Wenzhe said that the purpose of the meal was to establish a communication channel. In the future, Huang Shanshan, deputy general secretary of the People’s Party, and Hong Mengkai, secretary-general of the Kuomintang, will establish a hotline. If there is any matter, they will communicate directly without guessing each other.
Kuomintang League Chief Fu Kunqi said bluntly that he felt Ke Wenzhe's great goodwill and wanted Taiwan to be good and cross-strait peace. He emphasized that the opposition camp must be united in order to check and balance the domineering DPP.
Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan" Blue and White Party held a dinner meeting on February 22. After the meeting, People's Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe (left) and Kuomintang Party Chief Convenor Fu Kunqi (right) were interviewed.
Image source: Screenshot from Taiwan media
It is understood that the legislative reform plan was discussed during the closed-door dinner in the evening, and there was a high degree of consensus on many parts of it.
The cost of the meal for the Blue and White parties was about NT$13,000, split into "AA" accounts, and there were also rice dumplings made with rice wine specially prepared for the Lantern Festival in advance.
There was goodwill from both sides and the atmosphere was pleasant.
Wu Chuncheng, secretary-general of the Popular Party Caucus, said that the key is not to misjudge the situation and not to have "confrontation when cooperation is possible." Blue and White are not so opposed to each other on many things, and they just misunderstand because they don't know what the other side thinks.
In response to the convening elections for the standing committees of Taiwan's legislative body to be held on the 29th, Lin Siming, the chief deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang League, said on the 22nd that the Kuomintang must have its own subjectivity, and future bills or motions must be reviewed to show the attitude of a major party, and it is up to the Kuomintang. Presiding and setting agenda.
Ke Wenzhe said that the election of the convening committee was not discussed at the dinner party in the evening.