The Democratic Progressive Party's Legislative Yuan Party Group held a press conference on "Actively Respond to Public Opinion, Promoting Public Office Blackout and Amendment of Laws." Legislators Lin Jingyi (from left), Luo Zhizheng, and Huang Shijie attended and expressed their opinions.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Legislative by-elections for the third constituency in Taipei City (North Songshan, Zhongshan District) started. KMT candidate Wang Hongwei and KMT city councilor Xu Qiaoxin continued to smear DPP candidate Wu Yinong for being related to the underworld. The party group of the Progressive Party’s Legislative Yuan intends to amend the election strike law to eliminate gangsters. DPP legislator Wang Dingyu said that whether the Chinese Kuomintang and some people support this amendment will be a test of whether they really care about the issue of “underworld participation in politics” , It's just using "underworld issues" to fight election match-fixing.

Wang Dingyu said in a Facebook PO post that there will be gangster problems in any society, but if the gangsters control public power (white ways), the imbalance between black and white will lead to social collapse. Therefore, the fundamental way is to prevent the underworld from whitewashing through elections. In order to respond to the society's doubts about the underworld's involvement in politics, it is emphasized that the "Draft Amendment to the Election and Recall Law of Public Officials" will be proposed. In the future, those involved in "black, gold, guns, and drugs" will not be allowed to register as candidates after being sentenced.

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Wang Dingyu pointed out that before the DPP introduced this amendment, the DPP had already made its own requirements. According to the original regulations of the "Regulations on the Nomination of Public Candidates of the DPP", stricter moral standards were adopted. If you are "prosecuted" for organized crime, you will not be nominated, but the law on the election and recall of public officials involves constitutional suffrage, and if you are a new member of the party, if you have a "black, gold, gun, drug" or "organized crime" record, you will not be nominated. join the party.

Wang Dingyu bluntly said at the end of the article, "As for the attitude of the Chinese Kuomintang and some people? Whether they support this amendment will be a test of whether they really care about the issue of "underworld participation in politics"?

Or is it just using "underworld issues" to fight election match-fixing?

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