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Vice premier defends Cabinet members’ performance
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Paul Chiu said Premier Liu Chao-shiuan had confidence in his ministers, including the GIO chief, despite criticism that they were ‘too nice’ to do their jobs
STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA
Saturday, Jul 12, 2008, Page 3
Vice Premier Paul Chiu (邱正雄) said yesterday that were no plans to reshuffle the Cabinet and that the Cabinet’s spokeswoman was doing a good job.
His remarks came after former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Shen Fu-hsiung (沈富雄) was quoted by the Chinese-language United Daily News as saying that the problem with President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration was that “there are a lot of not so capable but nice people” in the Presidential Office and the Executive Yuan.
Shen, whom Ma nominated as vice president of the Control Yuan but failed to win legislative approval, said the Cabinet should be reshuffled within three months.
“One month is enough to see if a Cabinet member or a minister is capable of doing a good job,” Shen said.
Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Vanessa Shih (史亞平) should go because she doesn’t understand many of the nation’s policies, Shen said.
But Chiu said Shih, a former career diplomat, was qualified.
“Shih understands the nation’s policies quite well and her remarks are precise,” Chiu said.
Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) is “100 percent positive about Shih’s performance,” Chiu said.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) also defended Shih, saying that she should not bear the blame for the Cabinet’s lackluster performance because Liu has not been clear about his own policies, and is fickle.
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