The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus yesterday threatened to force through the confirmation of National Communications Commission (NCC) nominees if the Executive Yuan refuses to send the nominees to the legislature.
KMT Legislator Tseng Yung-chuan (
"Since it is clear that Premier Frank Hsieh (
Tseng said that they would first ask Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) to conduct cross-party negotiations to iron out differences. If those talks fail, Tseng said that instead of waiting for the Executive Yuan to send the NCC nomination list to the legislature, they are considering asking the Procedure Committee to place the matter on the legislative agenda with the copy of nominees they have at hand.
"We'd really hate to resort to this," Tseng said. "I'm calling on the Executive Yuan to show some respect for the law and the lawmaking body."
While the Executive Yuan was supposed to send the list of nominees recommended by the review panel on Dec. 18, it had not yet done so as of yesterday.
The Executive Yuan said it would like the panel to select another candidate to replace Lu Chung-chin (
Lu, a professor from National Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, withdrew his name two days after he was recommended by the panel.
The pan-blue alliance had threatened to indefinitely boycott the negotiations for the government's budget if the Executive Yuan failed to send the list of nominees for the NCC to the legislature for confirmation.
In response, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip William Lai (
He also called on the pan-blue camp to support the administration's proposal to call a review meeting and nominate another candidate.
Taiwan Solidarity Union caucus whip Mark Ho (何敏豪) yesterday called on the governing and opposition parties to demonstrate respect for each other. He also asked Wang to step in to resolve the dispute.
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