‘CROSSED THE LINE’: Former health minister Chen Shih-chung and a lawyer for former premier Su Tseng-chang filed a defamation complaint against Wu Tzu-chiaBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration’s performance in terms of COVID-19 prevention policies would be the make-or-break issue regarding the party’s success in the local elections in November, DPP caucus secretary-general Cheng Yun-peng (鄭運鵬) said on Tuesday.
If party members did well in preventing the COVID-19 pandemic, they would have a better chance of winning a successive term, Cheng added.
The public largely blamed Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center, for unpopular policies such as rapid screening test purchase restrictions, and rules about people who have tested positive for the virus visiting doctors