Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Yu Shyi-kun yesterday accused Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of trickery by pretending he did not know in advance of the KMT caucus' decision to vote down the president's nominee for state public prosecutor-general.
Yu asked Ma to stop conniving with the opposition parties to cause disturbances in the legislature.
Yu, attending the DPP's weekly Central Standing Committee meeting yesterday, was referring to the KMT and the People First Party's (PFP) joint move to scupper Hsieh Wen-ding's (謝文定) nomination.
Yu said it was ironic that Hsieh's appointment was vetoed, yet the unconstitutional March 19 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee Statute (
"We respect the authority of the Legislative Yuan to approve or reject the candidate for state public prosecutor-general, but we also believe that partisan politics should not influence judicial independence," Yu said.
"But seeing the farce staged in the Legislative Yuan, we saw Ma, a former Minister of Justice, once again show his Teflon-like quality by dodging political responsibility and claiming he knew nothing about the KMT caucus' decision. This is a typical Ma trick," he said.
Yu said that boycotts by the pan-blue legislators had reduced the Control Yuan to idleness, while the budgets for the Examination Yuan and Executive Yuan remain frozen.
"The unreasonable behavior of the pan-blue camp has paralyzed the government. People have to be aware that sabotaging democracy is a lot easier than accomplishing it," the DPP chief said.
He also blamed PFP Chairman James Soong (
"Hsieh has become a sacrifice to political confrontation. We want to ask Ma and Soong -- is this the reasonable surveillance [of party caucuses] that you have been promising?" Yu said.
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