The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday reiterated its call for the establishment of a legislative task force to monitor cross-strait policies and negotiations.
A poll released yesterday by the party showed that 74.1 percent of the public approved of the legislature forming a task force to monitor cross-strait policies and negotiations, with only 19.4 percent opposing the proposal.
DPP spokesman Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌) told a press conference that even Legislative Speaker Wang Jyn-ping (王金平) supported establishing the task force.
Tsai added that President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) had said the process of negotiation on signing an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with Beijing should be transparent and be monitored by the legislature, but 12 economic treaties inked by Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (江丙坤) and his Chinese counterpart, Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin (陳雲林), were enacted without sending them to the legislature for approval.
Tsai said 68.2 percent of respondents in the poll said that the legislature cannot supervise the government’s cross-strait policies efficiently, while 20.9 percent said the legislature is capable.
Tsai said the DPP would ask Ma to explain why his government has avoided legislative supervision on cross-strait policies during a press conference on the ECFA that the president is scheduled to give today.
The DPP conducted the poll last Thursday and Friday. A total of 978 valid samples were collected.
The DPP has accused Ma and his government of operating in a way that denies the legislature’s right to supervise cross-strait policies and negotiations.
This shows that the government is arrogant and authoritarian, the DPP has said.
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