The Constitutional Court is to render a ruling on Friday next week at 3pm to determine the fate of amendments to government oversight laws passed by the legislature.
The court is to decide whether the amendments and the deliberation before their passing on May 28 were constitutional.
It has already issued an injunction that halted the enforcement of many of the revisions, including those that give lawmakers much broader investigative powers.
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The case was brought up by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus, President William Lai (賴清德), the Executive Yuan and the Control Yuan at the end of June in a bid to reject the revisions.
The petitioners maintain that the amendments risk allowing the legislature to usurp the powers of other government branches and infringe on people’s right to privacy and trade secrets.
On the other hand, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) said that the amendments are necessary “reforms,” particularly in light of multiple allegations of corruption and wrongdoing surrounding several major DPP government policies and investment projects.
The amendments to the Act Governing the Legislative Yuan’s Power (立法院職權行使法) and the Criminal Code were passed by KMT and TPP lawmakers, who together have a majority of seats in the legislature.
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