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Ma to refer nomination list to legislature

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is scheduled to refer the nomination list of his Control Yuan and Examination Yuan nominees to the legislature today.

It requires a simple majority of legislators to confirm the nominees.

Former finance minister Wang Chien-shien, tapped to head the country’s supreme watchdog, yesterday said that he and former Democratic Progressive Party legislator Shen Fu-hsiung (沈富雄), nominated to serve as Wang’s deputy, would soon visit legislative causes.

He, however, emphasized their visits were merely a courtesy call and not an attempt to seek support.

Wang had reportedly told Control Yuan nominees to refrain from visiting the legislature and leave the matter to him and Shen.

As there has been a lot of domestic political wrangling, the Control Yuan — the country’s supreme supervisory body tasked with monitoring and arbitrating matters concerning elected officials and senior civil servants — has been empty since the term of office of previous members expired on Jan. 31, 2005.

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-controlled legislature repeatedly rejected former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) nomination lists.

The terms of the current Examination Yuan members expire on Aug. 31.

Their successors are to be sworn in on Sept. 1.

Meanwhile, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) has not yet decided on nominations for the National Communications Commission (NCC) members, Executive Yuan spokeswoman Vanessa Shih (史亞平) said yesterday.

Shih said while Liu would refer his nomination list to the legislature for confirmation before June 30, Liu has not yet come to a decision on the nominees.

Shih made the remarks in response to a story published in yesterday’s Chinese-language China Times.

The report claimed that current NCC Chairman Su Yeong-chin (蘇永欽) had expressed the intent to leave the post and that he was likely to be appointed as a grand justice.

The report also alleged that NCC spokesmen Howard Shyr (石世豪) and Liu Zong-de (劉宗德) and commissioner Hsieh Chin-nan (謝進男) were likely to retain their posts.

Shih yesterday said that she knew nothing about the speculation and that they were still in the process of vetting of potential candidates.

The NCC has seven members, who chose the chairman and vice chairman among themselves.

NCC members serve a four-year term but can also be re-appointed.
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