The ruling Democratic Progressive Party decided on Thursday to appeal to the Legislature to reconsider its earlier decision to abolish two sets of regulations aiming to justify the DPP administrations renaming of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to the "National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall".
The two sets of regulations, which were drafted by the Ministry of Education to rename CKS Memorial Hall, were abolished by lawmakers from the opposition Kuomintang and People First Party in a joint meeting of the Legislative Committees on Organic Law, as well as Education and Cultural Affairs.

KMT and PFP legislators passed a resolution to return the two sets of regulations to the Ministry of Education. They said those regulations are illegal and unnecessary as the Legislature has not approved a DPP-initiated proposal to revoke the organic law for Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.

DPP caucus whip Wang Hsing-nan （王幸男） blasted the Taipei City Government for defining the hall as a historical venue and warned Mayor Hau Lung-bins （郝龍斌） collaboration with opposition parties to counter the Central Governments decision to rename Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall "may create more problems."

Wangs deputy, Wang Shu-hui, also blasted the opposition parties for what she described as their "ignorance of administrative regulations" that allow the government to adjust the structures of organizations under its jurisdiction. "The Legislature has infringed upon the power of the central government by abolishing measures governing organizations under its jurisdiction," she said.

However, an official of the meeting department of the Legislature said it is not illegal for the Legislature to abolish the democracy hall regulations before the organic law of the CKS Memorial Hall is abolished.

The hall should not be regulated by two sets of regulations, the official said.

Although the Ministry of Education has the right to enact administrative regulations or rename organizations under its jurisdiction, those regulations should not contradict existing laws that are still effective, the official said.

The official refused to say if the Taiwan Democracy Hall may resume its original name because of the lack of a set of regulations to justify its name change, saying that it is a political issue that should be resolved with political means.

Calling it a "feudalistic monstrosity", President Chen Shui-bian （陳水扁） proposed a name change for Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in his speech before a forum in commemoration of the February 28 incident of 1947.

President Chen claimed late President Chiang Kai-shek （蔣介石） was "the chief culprit" of the bloody massacre that followed a spontaneous riot 60 years ago. It was "unreasonable that the chief culprit has continued to enjoy the adulation and privileges reserved for "an emperor in the feudalistic time," he charged.