The Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) said yesterday that 79 policies, or 19 percent of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) 414 campaign promises, have been implemented in the first year of his administration.
RDEC Minister Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) said that such a rate of progress was “reasonable,” adding that he was confident that the number of policies accomplished in the third and the fourth year of Ma’s presidency would increase.
To monitor progress on the implementation of his campaign promises, Ma has met with one government agency chief in the presence of the RDEC minister almost every week since late last year to discuss any difficulties holding up progress.
Jiang said that chiefs from 19 of a total of 38 subordinate agencies under the Executive Yuan had talked to Ma between Nov. 5 and March 11, during which Ma repeatedly instructed Cabinet officials to put his campaign promises into effect.
The RDEC classified the 414 policies into four groups based on the level of completion of each policy. The commission said in the first group, 79 promises had been realized, meaning that either the necessary legislation has been put into place or the promises have been put into practice.
Another 240 policies are classified as works in progress, meaning the policies’ related rules and regulations are pending review in the legislature or the policies’ goals have yet to be attained.
Jiang said that the Executive Yuan was still in the stage of mapping out plans to implement another 94 promises.
One other policy on offences involving revising the Criminal Code was now considered unnecessary because it was covered under the recently passed amendment to the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法), Jiang said.
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