The DPP will introduce amendments to two newly revised laws in the next legislature to fix what it call "loopholes" created by the opposition camp's "clumsy tinkering," DPP Legislative whip Tsai Hung-lang (蔡煌瑯) said yesterday.
The two controversial laws are the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Law Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures.
The revised Code of Criminal Procedure charges prosecutors with almost the entire responsibility for investigating crimes and securing convictions while at the same time limiting their powers to search and detain suspects.
Public prosecutors under the Ministry of Justice have complained that it will be impossible to put the revisions into practice without preparations that would take at least a year.
An article providing for a one-year grace period was not debated in the pell-mell final day of the legislative session.
The DPP and the opposition later blamed each other for the blunder.
The revised revenues allocation law, railroaded through by the opposition late Thursday night over objections from the DPP, will force the central government to disburse more of its revenues to local governments and will therefore further stretch the already tight government budget.
DPP political analysts said there are several options open to the party to fix what it described as flaws.
The premier could ask the legislature for a reconsideration of the controversial revisions, but given that the Cabinet is set to be reshuffled and the current legislature finished Friday, this move is unrealistic.
However, the request for reconsideration could be presented by the next premier to the new legislature when both are in place next month.
But political analysts said this would ruin the honeymoon period between the Executive Yuan and the Legislative Yuan, by confronting the new legislature with a hot potato left by its predecessor.
The last resort would be for the DPP lawmakers to introduce new amendments in the next legislature, although it is questionable whether the revisions would be passed in light of the fact that the DPP will not control the new legislature.
Taiwan’s exports soared to an all-time high of US$61.8 billion last month, surging 49.7 percent from a year earlier, as the global frenzy for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and new consumer electronics powered shipments of high-tech goods, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. It was the first time exports had exceeded the US$60 billion mark, fueled by the global boom in AI development that has significantly boosted Taiwanese companies across the international supply chain, Department of Statistics Director-General Beatrice Tsai (蔡美娜) told a media briefing. “There is a consensus among major AI players that the upcycle is still in its early stage,”
‘SECRETS’: While saying China would not attack during his presidency, Donald Trump declined to say how Washington would respond if Beijing were to take military action US President Donald Trump said that China would not take military action against Taiwan while he is president, as the Chinese leaders “know the consequences.” Trump made the statement during an interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes program that aired on Sunday, a few days after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in South Korea. “He [Xi] has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, ‘we would never do anything while President Trump is president,’ because they know the consequences,” Trump said in the interview. However, he repeatedly declined to say exactly how Washington would respond in
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said yesterday that China using armed force against Taiwan could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, allowing the country to mobilize the Japanese armed forces under its security laws. Takaichi made the remarks during a parliamentary session yesterday while responding to a question about whether a "Taiwan contingency" involving a Chinese naval blockade would qualify as a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, according to a report by Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. "If warships are used and other armed actions are involved, I believe this could constitute a survival- threatening
WARFARE: All sectors of society should recognize, unite, and collectively resist and condemn Beijing’s cross-border suppression, MAC Minister Chiu Chui-cheng said The number of Taiwanese detained because of legal affairs by Chinese authorities has tripled this year, as Beijing intensified its intimidation and division of Taiwanese by combining lawfare and cognitive warfare, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday. MAC Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) made the statement in response to questions by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Puma Shen (沈柏洋) about the government’s response to counter Chinese public opinion warfare, lawfare and psychological warfare. Shen said he is also being investigated by China for promoting “Taiwanese independence.” He was referring to a report published on Tuesday last week by China’s state-run Xinhua news agency,
RSS