Lien responds after saying KMT has `wimpy members'

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By Huang Tai-lin
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, May 17, 2004,Page 3

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) members were outraged at a remark by KMT Chairman Lien Chan (??) on Saturday that his party has "a few wimpy members."

Lien said yesterday that he did not insinuate anything or have specific KMT members in mind.

He was referring to an exchange on Saturday during his visit to Tainan and Kaohsiung, his first trip outside Taipei since the presidential election.

During a chat with lawyers in Kaohsiung taking part in the vote recount, one of them said to Lien that KMT members who resisted the party's move to hold protest rallies or urged the party to accept its defeat in the presidential election are "wimps."

Lien agreed and said that those wimps should leave the party.

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