KMT criticizes the Cabinet after power outage at building

By Chung Li-hua, Lo Kuo-chia and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source An hour-long power outage at the Executive Yuan yesterday morning drew sharp criticism from Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers over the government’s “urban resilience” efforts, while the Cabinet blamed the blackout on three-decade-old equipment and a replacement budget stalled in the legislature. The outage began at 7:34am, and Taiwan Power Co personnel were dispatched to assist equipment vendors, sources said.Power was progressively restored from 8:06am and was back to normal by 8:34am, they said. The Presidential Office Building in Taipei is pictured on March 17. Photo: I-Hwa Cheng, AFP The incident occurred on the same morning that the nation began urban resilience drills as