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.
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