A committee review of proposed legislative reforms has been postponed to April 15 to give more time to consider strongly differing opinions on the matter, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wu Tsung-hsien (吳宗憲) said on Wednesday.
The legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee was scheduled to review the bill earlier in the day.
Opposition lawmakers have proposed a set of reforms to the legislature that would require the president to give a regular state of the nation address, give lawmakers the power to hold investigative hearings and allow lawmakers to be held in contempt.
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Committee chair Wu on Wednesday morning oversaw a report by academics and government representatives on the matter, which was to be followed by a line-by-line committee review.
The experts gave many “valuable opinions,” Wu said, adding that Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chung Chia-pin (鍾佳濱) is also planning two hearings on the matter when he takes over as chair next week.
Wu said he personally does not like to see such strong polarization within the legislature, and as the “highest temple to democracy in Taiwan,” it should listen to more diverse voices.
Many lawmakers have also returned to their constituencies to aid in the response to the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck in the morning, so the review has been postponed to April 15, he added.
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