President William Lai (賴清德) has nominated Examination Yuan Vice President Chou Hung-hsien (周弘憲) to head the nation’s highest examination body, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) announced at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Chou, 70, a licensed lawyer, has 16 years of experience serving in various positions in the Examination Yuan and the Executive Yuan, Hsiao said.
Hsu Shu-hsiang (許舒翔), 63, a former minister of examination, is to take over Chou’s position as Examination Yuan vice president, Hsiao said.
Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
Seven people — the minimum required by the law — have been nominated as Examination Yuan commissioners.
They are: former Taipei deputy mayor Teng Chia-chi (鄧家基); Huang Tong-yi (黃東益), professor of public administration at National Chengchi University; Lu Chiu-hui (呂秋慧), a former administrative deputy minister at the Ministry of Civil Service; Ker Li-ling (柯麗鈴), president of the Academy for the Judiciary and a prosecutor at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office; Chiau Wen-yan (邱文彥), emeritus professor at National Taiwan Ocean University and National Sun Yat-sen University; and incumbent commissioners Wang Hsiu-hung (王秀紅) and Iwan Nawi.
The Examination Yuan, one of the five branches of government, is responsible for developing and overseeing national civil service examinations, civil servants’ qualification screening, as well as civil servants’ protection, bereavement compensation, retirement, evaluation and salaries, information of its Web site states.
As stipulated in the Ministry of Examination Organization Act (考試院組織法), the president, vice president and commissioners serve a four-year term, and no more than half of the commissioners can belong to the same political party.
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