uld resign to join the national labor sector if the draft law governing the organization of the labor retirement pension supervisory commission fails to be ratified at the extra legislative session. Lee made the remarks at a press conference held yesterday morning by the legislative caucus of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
Lee said that the DPP has made every possible compromise within the legislative system, but Tseng Yung-chuan, chief of the central policy committee of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), and Tsai Chin-lung, convener of the KMT's legislative caucus, have yet to sign a set of consensuses reached during negotiations between the ruling and opposition parties.
The CLA head said that the labor retirement pension fund is accumulating at a monthly pace of NT$8 billion, and will amount to a high of NT$200 billion by the end of this year, but there still lacks a law to legalize investments with the fund.
He said that none of the 35 bills raised by the KMT for deliberation and ratification at the extra legislative session include the organic law for the supervision of the pension fund, indicating the party's ignorance of the interests of national workers.
At the same press conference, Lawmaker Ker Chien-ming, a convener-in-chief of the DPP's legislative caucus, said whether the extra legislative session can be held smoothly rests with the attitude of the KMT and the People First Party (PFP) toward the 2007 central government budget proposal. Ker called for the KMT and PFP to support the DPP's assertion to list the budget proposal as the first bill to be deliberated and ratified at the extra session.
The KMT and PFP jointly held a press conference calling for the DPP to first screen a total of 28 bills already deemed acceptable to both ruling and opposition parties.
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