DPP scorns premier’s frozen salary

By Lin Che-yuan and Yang Hsin-hui / Staff reporters Add TT as Preferred Source Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chung Chia-pin (鍾佳濱) yesterday said the opposition parties’ move to freeze Premier Cho Jung-tai’s (卓榮泰) salary was illegal and unconstitutional.The opposition-controlled Legislative Yuan on Friday last week passed the central government’s annual budget and approved a proposal by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Weng Hsiao-ling (翁曉玲) to freeze Cho’s salary from September through December, the first such instance in Taiwan’s constitutional history.Weng accused President William Lai (賴清德) and Cho of acting unconstitutionally and illegally, saying: “To deal with a rogue government, we would rather starve it to death than fatten it up.” Legislators hold up placa