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Cabinet should heed Ma, Hsieh on draft: Wang

Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) said yesterday that the Cabinet should heed the opinions of the two presidential candidates as it plans an overhaul of the executive branch.

Wang said that both presidential candidates had made suggestions regarding Cabinet plans to streamline the Executive Yuan. He also said the legislature would review the plans immediately once the executive had passed a proposal.

Wang said the Cabinet should refer the draft amendment to the Organic Law of the Executive Yuan (行政院組織法) to the legislature as soon as possible so that it can be reviewed and passed into law ahead of the election.

Earlier this week, the Cabinet postponed approving revisions to streamline the Executive Yuan and cut the number of agencies under it from 39 to 26.

Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) and Vice Premier Chiou I-jen (邱義仁) said they would try to pass the revisions next week.

Based on a 2005 proposal that called for the Executive Yuan to comprise 13 ministries and four councils, the revisions under consideration propose a structure of 14 ministries, seven councils and five independent organizations.

The new measures would add a ministry for veterans affairs and two councils -- a gender equality commission and an oceans commission -- to the 2005 proposal.

The establishment of a ministry of veterans affairs was at the center of heated debate among Executive Yuan ministries and agencies on Wednesday.

Chiou, who supports the idea, said it would not merely be a "transplant" of the existing Veterans Affairs Commission and would play a key role in establishing a voluntary military service in the future.

The revisions will be submitted to the Legislative Yuan for approval after being passed by the Executive Yuan.
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