Describing Mo’s no-show as a “beautiful and unintended mistake,” Chow said the KMT would adjust the party’s internal operations to prevent a recurrence. Accusing Mo of wasting social resources, Wang said Mo and KMT Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) should apologize. By Stacy Hsu / Staff reporterThe Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to refrain from an unnecessary war of words, as the party sought to assuage controversy over KMT Secretary-General Mo Tien-hu’s (莫天虎) no-show at a party event for post-typhoon reconstruction workers in Taitung City. We did not arrange for Mo to pay his respects to reconstruction workers in Taitung City when we finalized his itinerary on Saturday,” KMT Culture and Communications Committee director Chow Chi-wai (周志偉) said at KMT headquarters in Taipei. “Mo, whose plane arrived in Taitung at 8:40am, was unaware of the extra event the entire time,” Chow added.

Source: Taipei Times July 11, 2016 15:56 UTC