When the Judiciary and Legal Affairs Committee of Taiwan’s legislative body continued to review the legislative reform bill on the 6th, Ke Jianming, the chief convener of the Democratic Progressive Party, blurted out, "God has eyes for a major earthquake." He was criticized for his mistake. Ke then said that if everyone thinks that If the content of my speech caused misunderstanding or discomfort, I sincerely apologize. In response to this, Kuomintang League Chief Fu Kunqi responded in the afternoon, scolding Ke Jianming for treating the victims in a joking tone and eating steamed buns with human blood. Lai Qingde should face the people and expel corrupt elements like Ke Jianming from the legislative body.
Fu Kunqi held a press conference in the afternoon to respond to Ke Jianming's gaffe. The press conference lasted about 7 minutes. Fu Kunqi spoke harshly and angrily scolded Ke Jianming.
Fu Kunqi said that the people of Huadong have been silently enduring the great changes of natural disasters for a long time, trying to save lives among the rubble. However, not only more than 20 people were unfortunately killed in this earthquake, but there were thousands of victims, including resettlement and reconstruction. Unexpectedly, in the midst of the people's suffering, we are sad to see Ke Jianming treating such a large-scale natural disaster as a political attack and defense, and jokingly claiming that the earthquake blocked the legislative reform review.
In addition, Lin Yijun, the representative of the People's Party, also expressed strict condemnation on the afternoon of the 6th. Political criticism should not pour salt on the wounds of innocent victims in Hualien. No matter how political offense or defense is, one should have empathy.
Lin Yijun mentioned that his service team was working day and night, working hard to stand on the front line to help the Hualien victims rebuild. Hearing Ke Jianming speak like this, he felt really shameful and called on Ke Jianming to not only immediately and publicly apologize to the Hualien folks, but also to Lead the party group and require the ruling team to fully assist and support all Hualien post-disaster reconstruction plans.
Lin Yijun pointed out that it has been one month since the 0403 earthquake, and he still continues to travel to Hualien to assist in post-disaster reconstruction. The disaster situation he came into contact with from the front line is far more serious than what he saw from other media, and the reconstruction work is also better than imagined. How many grassroots personnel and enthusiastic people have worked hard for disaster relief and recovery. Natural disasters that no one wants to see should not become cold-blooded political language.
Straits Herald reporter Xue Yang compiled the report
