Complaining the judiciary was partisan, the People First Party (PFP) legislative caucus yesterday proposed to amend the Organic Law of the Judicial Yuan (司法院組織法) to allow the State Public Prosecutor-General to assign an independent prosecutor or task force to handle major cases.
The amendment would require that candidates for the post of prosecutor-general be nominated by the president and approved by the Legislative Yuan. Appointees would be restricted to one five-year term.
The PFP caucus claimed that more than 500 prosecutors had signed a petition demanding that an independent prosecutorial system be established.
"The government has wrongly given priority to several cases. The important and urgent cases are not speedily dealt with, yet the minor cases are getting immediate attention," PFP Legislator Pang Chien-kuo (龐建國) said.
"We must ask whether prosecutors are coming under pressure -- so their neutrality is questionable. It is urgent that we establish an independent prosecutorial system," Pang said.
PFP Legislator Chou Hsi-wei (
"While [PFP Legislator] Chiu Yi's (邱毅) case was expedited, former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) was still only summoned as a witness in the National Security Bureau case. This shows that the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] administration is protecting its supporters and suppressing its opponents," Chou said.
PFP Legislator Liu Wen-hsiung (
"The DPP government has been prosecuting pan-blue supporters, even film stars Brigitte Lin (
Liu said the PFP's feeling that political prosecutions were taking place emerged after PFP legislators Feng Ting-kuo (
Liu said that Feng and Lee Ching-hua visited Central Election Commission Chairman Huang Shih-cheng (
Liu said they had done so only to suggest the commission had made the announcement illegally and that they were entitled to make the suggestion at the commission's premises.
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