Meanwhile, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) urged opposition parties to review and deliberate the entire NT$3.35 trillion (US$105.98 billion) budget instead of fast-tracking a small group of 38 programs, equaling only 2.4 percent of the full budget. “We do not understand why the opposition parties do not follow the legislative process for the budget,” she said. “The 38 programs are in the general budget, which the Cabinet submitted to the legislature on Aug. 29 last year,” it said. KMT deputy secretary-general Lin Pei-hsiang (林沛祥) said that the government failed in its duty to compile a budget according to the law, making its proposed budget illegal. The smaller budget to fund the 38 programs was compiled according to Article 54 of the Budget Act (預算法), Lin said, adding that the government should quickly compile a new budget for the legislature to deliberate.
