NPP suspends chairman over probe‘ZERO TOLERANCE’: Chiu Hsien-chih has taken over as the party’s acting chairman, and said he would work on the party’s ability to detect and address corruptionBy Wu Su-wei and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe New Power Party (NPP) on Saturday suspended party chairman Hsu Yung-ming (徐永明) over his alleged involvement in a bribery case. The NPP said it has appointed caucus whip Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) as acting chairman until an intra-party election for chairperson is held early next year. New Power Party caucus whip Chiu Hsien-chih speaks in Taipei on July 13. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei TimesChiu was NPP chairman from March to August last year. As to whether Hsu would be stripped of his party membership, Chiu said that its disciplinary committee was following party regulations in suspending Hsu’s chairman position for the moment.

Source: Taipei Times August 02, 2020 15:56 UTC