Veterans Continue Protesting Outside Legislature|立院臨時會審軍年 八百壯士場外抗議

Legislators met to confirm the agenda and end date of the extraordinary session. The Democratic Progressive Party caucus managed to get a review of its military pension reform draft listed first on the agenda despite the Kuomintang caucus' efforts to block it. In the meantime, veterans group 800 Warriors held a mass protest outside the legislative Yuan.


Veterans from the 800 Warriors protest the Tsai administration's pension reforms outside the legislature. Inside, the Democratic Progressive Party caucus uses its majority to get the pension reform draft listed first on the agenda of the upcoming extraordinary session. The 800 Warriors say their protest will continue in a peaceful, rational way.
If the DPP forces its pension reforms through this weekend, we will immediately apply for a constitutional interpretation. We urge the Judicial Yuan and the grand justices to treat this issue with your legal and moral conscience.

When our retired police and firefighter brothers in the north heard about this, we all showed up. This wasn't planned or discussed ahead of time.

As 2,000 people from retired military, teacher and civil servant groups were expected to join the 800 Warriors in a show of solidarity, police surrounded the legislature with barricades. Inside, the Kuomintang caucus vowed to do everything in its power to block the draft.

Pension reforms for retired civil servants and teachers have already passed. We now need to complete military pension reforms as soon as possible.

Everyone is working together on the diplomacy front. So, we recommend and formally call for a state of the nation (report) from President Tsai Ing-wen.

The 800 Warriors say they will not give up and urged everyone joining their protest to stay peaceful. The group also asked the police and media to remain objective and refrain from attributing violence committed by other groups to the 800 Warriors.