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KMT legislators threaten to veto nominees

Several Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators yesterday protested the absence of People First Party (PFP) members on the list of nominations for Control Yuan posts presented by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), threatening to veto some of the nominees.

The list, announced by Ma on Friday, included people from across the political spectrum and from civil associations.

Although PFP Legislator Lee Fu-tien (李復甸) was listed, members proposed by the PFP, including former legislators Liu Wen-hsiung (劉文雄) and Feng Ting-kuo (馮定國) and PFP deputy secretary-general Ma Chieh-ming (馬傑明), were absent.

KMT legislators who had left the PFP to join the KMT resented Ma’s exclusion of members recommended by the PFP and urged him to explain his reasoning to PFP Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜).

“The Presidential Office did not consult us before presenting the list and it can’t expect us to support all the nominees on the list,” said KMT Legislator Lee Hung-chun (李鴻鈞), a former PFP member.

KMT Legislator Hsieh Kuo-liang (謝國樑) also challenged the list, complaining that Ma should not ignore Liu, Feng and other PFP members’ efforts to push for a KMT-PFP merger.

Hsieh also said that Ma should choose nominees such as former Taiwan Solidarity Union legislator Chien Lin Hui-chun (錢林慧君) over pan-blue members.

Lee said other former PFP members in the legislature had already reached a consensus that they would not support all the nominees.

Ma is scheduled to refer the nomination lists to the Legislative Yuan tomorrow for confirmation of the Control Yuan and Examination Yuan posts. The legislature will complete the review by July 11.

According to the Law Governing the Legislative Yuan’s Power (立法院職權行使法), the nominations pass only if approved by 50 percent of legislators.
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