KMT blasted for plan to let criminals hold posts - TW

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By Chang Yun-ping

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday lambasted the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for seeking to loosen up a series of legal stipulations aimed at preventing convicted criminals from taking up posts at farmers' and fishermen's associations.

Deputy Director of the DPP's Policy Research and Coordinating Committee Liang Wen-chieh (???) yesterday said the KMT intended to revise the Farmer's Association Law (???) and the Fishermen's Association Law (???) in the extra legislative session in an attempt to provide clearance for personnel with criminal backgrounds to remain in the organizations.

According to Liang, the KMT has proposed a bill to revise Article 46 of the Farmer's Association Law and Article 49 of the Fishermen's Association Law in a bid to scrap current stipulations which remove personnel from their duties if found guilty of a crime in an initial verdict.

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