No Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) legislators were voted to lead any of the eight standing committees on Thursday, following rumors that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) might back the other opposition party for one cochair role.
Each standing committee in the legislature (13 to 15 members) votes on two cochairs, who are responsible for setting the agenda for committee meetings.
After the election last month, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won 51 total legislative seats, while the KMT won 52 and the TPP won eight.
Photo: Liao Chen-hui, Taipei Times
DPP members voted one of their own into each committee. With backing from the TPP, KMT members were voted as cochairs of seven committees.
Blue-aligned independent Legislator May Chin (高金素梅) was voted cochair of the Internal Administration Committee, alongside DPP Legislator Wu Chi-ming (吳琪銘).
It had been rumored that the KMT was going to back TPP Legislator Lin Kuo-cheng (林國成) as cochair of the Transportation Committee, but the position went to Legislator Chen Hsueh-sheng (陳雪生) of the KMT.
The Foreign and National Defense Committee is to be led by Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) of the DPP and Ma Wen-chun (馬文君) of the KMT.
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