Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) yesterday called for the abolition of the Control Yuan, suggesting the opposition caucuses in the Legislative Yuan first reject all nominees to effectively freeze the body’s operations and then seek cross-party consensus to pursue a constitutional amendment to abolish it.
Chiang, a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), said that the Control Yuan has shown little action on issues that concern the public, and it has often been evasive or given only a perfunctory response, prompting criticism that the agency has become a tool for partisan fights and a way for politicians to whitewash their actions.
Citing incumbent Control Yuan President Chen Chu’s (陳菊) previous remarks that she hoped to be the last Control Yuan president, Chiang said that abolishing the Control Yuan has long been a platform of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and it should agree to amend the Constitution and remove the organ.
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The term of the sixth Control Yuan members is set expire on July 31. The Presidential Office on Thursday announced 29 nominees for the next term.
Chiang suggested that the KMT and the Taipei People’s Party caucuses should ignore the Presidential Office’s nominations and slowly build a consensus on abolishing the Control Yuan.
DPP Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋) said that he found it odd that Chiang was not responding to questions about the governance of Taipei, but was instead commenting on other issues “like he’s running for president.”
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Additional reporting by Tung Kuan-yi
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