Cabinet Secretary-General Lee Ying-yuan (
In order to maintain Cabinet stability, Lee indicated, the premier wants to nominate Lee's replacement from outside the Cabinet.
Sources said that the premier favors DPP legislator-at-large Liu Shih-fang (劉世芳) as Lee's successor.
PHOTO: CHU YU-PING, TAIPEI TIMES
The premier is said to think Liu is an ideal candidate, Lee said on a radio show yesterday.
As for Liu's successor, DPP member Lin Chung-cheng (
Liu is in Indonesia for an international conference and was unavailable for comment.
Lin said he was not in a position to give further details before the Cabinet and DPP officially announce the nominations.
The Cabinet is scheduled to name its new secretary-general tomorrow.
Lin, however, confirmed that since the DPP is to elect members to the Central Standing Committee next month, he has received many congratulatory calls from party members who want him to run in the election.
Meanwhile, DPP member Lin Wen-lang (林文郎) is slated to replace Chiu Chang (邱彰) as a legislator-at-large, after Chiu was expelled from the party for "violating a party resolution" by refusing to show her ballot during the legislative vice-speaker election on Feb. 1.
Lin is to be sworn in on Tuesday.
Commenting on her ouster, Chiu said yesterday that she was helpless in the face off DPP and Presidential Office pressure.
She added that she is disappointed by the "infighting and power struggles within the DPP, which has lost its idealism."
After losing the legislative post, Chiu is busy finding new jobs for her legislative aides and moving out of her office in the legislature.
LOOKING NORTH: The base would enhance the military’s awareness of activities in the Bashi Channel, which China Coast Guard ships have been frequenting, an expert said The Philippine Navy on Thursday last week inaugurated a forward operating base in the country’s northern most province of Batanes, which at 185km from Taiwan would be strategically important in a military conflict in the Taiwan Strait. The Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted Northern Luzon Command Commander Lieutenant General Fernyl Buca as saying that the base in Mahatao would bolster the country’s northern defenses and response capabilities. The base is also a response to the “irregular presence this month of armed” of China Coast Guard vessels frequenting the Bashi Channel in the Luzon Strait just south of Taiwan, the paper reported, citing a
Three batches of banana sauce imported from the Philippines were intercepted at the border after they were found to contain the banned industrial dye Orange G, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday. From today through Sept. 2 next year, all seasoning sauces from the Philippines are to be subject to the FDA’s strictest border inspection, meaning 100 percent testing for illegal dyes before entry is allowed, it said in a statement. Orange G is an industrial coloring agent that is not permitted for food use in Taiwan or internationally, said Cheng Wei-chih (鄭維智), head of the FDA’s Northern Center for
A total lunar eclipse, an astronomical event often referred to as a “blood moon,” would be visible to sky watchers in Taiwan starting just before midnight on Sunday night, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said. The phenomenon is also called “blood moon” due to the reddish-orange hue it takes on as the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, completely blocking direct sunlight from reaching the lunar surface. The only light is refracted by the Earth’s atmosphere, and its red wavelengths are bent toward the moon, illuminating it in a dramatic crimson light. Describing the event as the most important astronomical phenomenon
UNDER PRESSURE: The report cited numerous events that have happened this year to show increased coercion from China, such as military drills and legal threats The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aims to reinforce its “one China” principle and the idea that Taiwan belongs to the People’s Republic of China by hosting celebratory events this year for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the “retrocession” of Taiwan and the establishment of the UN, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said in its latest report to the Legislative Yuan. Taking advantage of the significant anniversaries, Chinese officials are attempting to assert China’s sovereignty over Taiwan through interviews with international news media and cross-strait exchange events, the report said. Beijing intends to reinforce its “one China” principle
RSS