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KMT Taipei City Councillor Yang Qitu, who had suggested Shen might be ill for making the claims, publicly apologised and said he was wrong and sorry, as the case dovetailed with Shen's combative appearance on TVBS's Shao Kang War Room, where host Chao Shao Kang pressed him on marijuana policy and the death penalty.

Next in political news, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Su Chia-ching tearfully resigned on Tuesday after the Taiwan People's Party accused her family of parasitizing the council, alleging her 14-year-old son had posed as an official photographer on overseas trips and that her husband used ministry cars.

Xu had previously been fined 100,000 New Taiwan Dollars by the Control for failing to recuse herself from a conflict of interest.

Premier Zhuo Zhongtai accepted her resignation to protect her reputation, praising her year in office, and asked Deputy Minister Li Yanhui, who had also offered to resign, to stay on as acting head of the council.

Yeah.

Oh, you mean the Taiwan People's Party?

Taiwan People's Party.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I think it's because, actually, it's not we started, not Taiwanese, Taiwanese people started, because I think it's KMT started.

It's the Taiwan People, uh, [foreign language]

The Taiwan People's Party.

There's a couple of points I would take a little bit of umbrage with.

I don't think necessarily a critique on the control UN is just Westerners coming here and critiquing Taiwan for the sake of it or saying the KMT and TPP is bad.

One of the reasons I highlighted the economist piece is even though David Rennie did lean into the pan-white-blue coalition very hard, he also critiqued the pan-green coalition very For many things that they have not done to do proper outreach.

And there's been a sort of escalatory kind of spiral across Taiwanese politics from last year's sort of like great recall to previous sort of small recall efforts to other sort of things.

Taiwan's legislature rejected all twenty-seven nominees for the Control Yuan, the constitutional watchdog that monitors the government, in a roll call vote on September twenty-ninth.

The opposition KMT and Taiwan People's Party caucuses voted as a bloc against every candidate, including president nominee Chen Jung-shing, denying each the majority of all lawmakers required for confirmation.

The Control Yuan warned that its impeachment censure and correction powers have stalled, that thousands of monthly public petitions cannot be processed, and that the National Human Rights Commission, a body set up under the United Nations Paris Principles, cannot operate.

The sixth term members' terms expired on July thirty-first, and no seventh term can take office.