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'PAN-BLUE ALLIANCE' URGED TO SCREEN ARMS PURCHASE BUDGET

ROC Central News Agency

2006-10-23 15:52:41

    Taipei, Oct. 23 (CNA) The opposition "pan-blue alliance" should keep its promise by allowing several proposals initiated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to be screened in the Legislative Yuan, DPP legislative caucus whip Yeh Yi-jin said Monday.

    At a press conference held at the legislature, Yeh said the Executive Yuan has withdrawn the special arms purchase plan in the legislature and replaced it with an annual arms procurement budget plan in accordance with the petition of the opposition "pan-blue alliance" of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the People First Party (PFP).

    Yeh expressed the hope that the "pan-blue" legislators, which hold a slight majority in the legislature, will put several proposals, including the arms purchase plan, the nomination list for Control Yuan members and the nomination of the country's state public prosecutor general, on the agenda for screening in Monday's procedure committee meeting.

    Yeh expressed regret over the remarks made by PFP Chairman James Soong Sunday that members of a so-called anti-graft campaign with President Chen Shui-bian as its target have proposed that "pan-blue" lawmakers postpone placing the three proposals on the agenda until prosecutors close the probe into the alleged misuse of the Presidential Office's state affairs budget.

    Yeh said she has doubted the political wisdom of the leader of the anti-corruption campaign, Shih Ming-teh, a former DPP chairman, adding that the "pan-blue alliance" should not undermine the country's constitutional operations and national security for its own political interests.

(By Elisa Kao)

ENDITEM/Li