<strong>Fix presidential funds</strong>
The Legislative Yuan passed an amendment to Article 99-1 of the Accounting Act (會計法) on Monday amid chaotic protests by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators that resulted in damage to the portrait of Sun Yat-sen (孫中山) behind the speaker’s podium.
The “special allowance funds” used by officials other than the president for discretionary public relations purposes, such as rewards and gifts, and the “special state affairs fund” allocated by the president are essentially the same thing, despite their different names.
Former presidents Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) had disputes over their use of special state affairs funds or