Former legislator Duan Yikang broke the news on Facebook today that Lin Mingqin, a candidate for the Kuomintang legislature, abused official vehicles in 2014.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Voting will be held on March 4 in the by-election of the Legislative Council of the 2nd constituency of Nantou County.

Former legislator Duan Yikang broke the news on Facebook this morning (4th) that when KMT candidate Lin Mingqin served as a legislator in 2014 and was preparing to run for county magistrate, he used official vehicles for an average of 6.6 hours a day. Duan Yikang teased, " Lin Mingqin was sentenced to a certain sentence for bribery; in fact, he is a person who is greedy for petty gain and never lazy in taking taxpayers' money." In the article, the details of Lin Mingqin's use of official vehicles at that time are attached.

Duan Yikang explained that in May 2014, he checked the records of legislators using official vehicles from January to April of that year. The Legislative Yuan was equipped with a number of black-headed cars and drivers in Taipei for use by legislators from other places when driving in Taipei; the central part of the Legislative Yuan The office also has 3 or 4 cars and drivers in case legislators travel to the central region for business trips and inspections.

Official cars are bought with the hard-earned money of taxpayers, and fuel and maintenance are also official budget expenditures; drivers are formally staffed, and of course they receive government salaries.

Therefore, when legislators use official vehicles, they must first fill in an application form, and then the Legislative Yuan dispatches vehicles on a daily basis according to the order of application.

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Duan Yikang criticized Lin Mingqin's use of official vehicles in violation of regulations and exceeded the standard. "He basically took the official car and the driver as his own, and used it directly to run the itinerary for the county magistrate!" He also pointed out that he took an average of official vehicles in the constituency every day (including Saturdays and Sundays) According to the regulations of the Legislative Yuan at that time, each legislator should not use an official car for more than 70 hours per month.” According to the analysis, Lin Mingqin used an official car for 209 hours a month, and only 11.4 hours when he went to Taipei for a meeting; the rest 197.6 hours were all ridden in the middle.

Duan Yikang satirized, "The salary paid by taxpayers to Lin Mingqin is not enough for him to buy a car for transportation? Isn't the fee paid by Lin Mingqin's assistant enough for him to hire his own driver?" Spending his own money to buy a car, hire people, and gas. Lin Mingqin took advantage of the public company and took advantage of the taxpayers. He was never lazy, and he was very serious!" At the end of the text, he said, "When the county magistrate has a car After leaving office, I should miss the official car of the Legislative Yuan…”

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