The Legislative Yuan today passed a resolution to form a Constitutional Amendment Committee, which is to hold its first meeting later this month.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus said it would not raise any objections to the resolution before today’s vote.
Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) then announced that the resolution had been passed, and the composition of the committee would be in line with the proportion of legislative seats held by every political party.
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The committee is to convene on Aug. 25, Han said.
The motion was proposed by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), which had previously proposed the abolishment of the Control Yuan with the support of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
The TPP advanced the motion to its second reading in June.
At that time, the motion was opposed by the ruling DPP and a consensus was not reached during cross-party negotiations.
The TPP proposed amendments to the motion, which were put on the agenda of today’s session.
Legislators from different parties have proposed constitutional amendments that have been passed in plenary sessions, the TPP said.
However, due to the lack of the Constitutional Amendment Committee in this legislative term, there is a need to establish the committee so that the proposed amendments can be further discussed, the TPP said.
The committee should be formed according to the ratio of seats held by every party in the legislature, the TPP said.
The KMT should have 19 seats, the DPP should have 17 seats and the TPP should have three seats in the committee, the TPP said.
After the resolution was passed, TPP Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) proposed reconsidering the resolution.
No legislators voted in favor of the proposal, while 56 voted against it.
The bill is not to be reconsidered in the future if it is rejected by the legislature, as such a request can only be made once, according to the Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Yuan (立法院議事規則).
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