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controversy over the taiwan authorities' general budget continues to rage, and lu xiuyan, the "first sister of the blue camp," predicts reconciliation after drinking coffee

2024-10-07

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the taiwan authorities' general budget has been blocked by the blue and white caucus, taiwan's public opinion organization. before the taichung city council session on the 7th, the taichung city government led deputy mayor huang guorong to go to the democratic progressive party caucus to report on the "2025 general budget." and budget proposals for affiliated units”. however, during the meeting, xiao longze, the chief convener of the democratic progressive party caucus, and others held up placards to criticize the city government for failing to propose specific new projects, demanding that they be presented and clearly explained on the 11th. taichung mayor lu xiuyan pointed out that after drinking "reconciliation coffee", hanguo-yu and zhuo rongtai will definitely resolve the matter.

the taichung city council held a meeting today to deliver the mayor's policy address. chief councilor xiao longze, deputy councilor huang shouda, city councilors chen shuhua, li tiansheng, chen yurong and others held up a sign saying "the city government evades supervision and citizens suffer" and strongly requested the city government to take stock of new additions. project and clearly explain it to parliament.

xiao longze said that the total budget of taichung city next year will include subsidies from the taiwan authorities of up to 53 billion yuan (nt$, the same below), accounting for 30% of taichung city’s total budget revenue next year, an increase of 2 billion yuan from this year, which will have a huge impact on taichung city, but vice mayor huang guorong led all first-level managers of the municipal government to report to the democratic progressive party group, but lin shuqin, the chief accounting officer, knew nothing about the new projects.

chen shuhua requested that new plan details be presented on the 11th and be clearly explained to the democratic progressive party group. chen yurong claimed that deputy mayor huang even pretended not to know what the new projects were, deceiving the council and evading supervision, and the victims were all taichung citizens. speaker zhang qingzhao pointed out that the city government was requested to strengthen communication.

in this regard, lu xiuyan said that after the heads of the two major agencies han guoyu and zhuo rongtai drank the "reconciliation coffee", there will be results. this will not affect our review in november. she has confidence in the two people and they will definitely reconcile.

the taiwan authorities' general budget has been blocked by the blue and white party, taiwan's public opinion organization. lu xiuyan pointed out in parliament last week that there are two types of new budgets, one is the addition requested by the city government, and the other is the addition by the taiwan authorities' "ministry". it may be entrusted to local governments to implement it, or it may be implemented by the taiwanese authorities themselves. since the chief financial officer currently cannot obtain information from the taiwanese authorities, it is currently impossible to have a complete picture of the new budget. however, the city government has not proposed it today, causing dissatisfaction among the green camp.

straits herald taiwan correspondent lin jingxian