The TPP has once again been accused of seeking to change laws in order to benefit party founder Ko Wen-je. Ko is currently facing up to seventeen years in jail, as well as six years of being deprived of civil rights, in connection with corruption charges...
US arms sales to Taiwan have been thrown into question due to the KMT’s continual refusal to approve defense procurement spending. The KMT, along with its ally, the TPP, has now voted down defense spending ten times...
Questions about whether the TPP and KMT will cooperate in the upcoming local elections have been raised, with TPP chair Huang Kuo-chang announcing that he will run for New Taipei mayor. Huang announcing this mayoral run takes place shortly after a meeting between him and newly-elected KMT party chair Cheng Li-wun, known for her outspoken pro-China views...
The African Swine Fever has entered Taiwan, with cases confirmed after inspections of dead pigs at a farm in Taichung. The Taiwanese government has stated that it will report the cases to the World Organization for Animal Health, as well as trading partners. The Taiwanese government has, likewise, stated that it is willing to provide information to China, seeking to take the high moral ground when China has sometimes been criticized as refusing to share information with Taiwan or other countries over disease outbreaks...
A legal proposal from the TPP seeks to end pre-trial detentions over collusion. That is, Taiwan’s criminal justice system allows for pre-trial detention of individuals on charges of collusion, referring to that individuals may collaborate with others to conceal or destroy evidence...
The TPP is caught in a dilemma regarding a provision in the party charter that its legislators would rotate after two-year terms. The party previously pledged in the course of electioneering that the party would, unlike other political parties in the Taiwanese legislature, swap out its slate of legislators for other members of its party list after two years...
In an unusual legislative proposal, the TPP has proposed that legal proceedings be livestreamed in the future. The proposal has since been pushed through the legislature by the TPP and KMT...
