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Coalition for Taiwan as a Happy Country members yesterday protest in front of the Control Yuan in Taipei to call for the agency’s abolishment. Photo: Lee Hsin-fang, Taipei Times
By Lee Hsin-fang, Chou Ssu-yu and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Demanding that the Control Yuan be abolished before its new term starts tomorrow, a pro-Taiwanese independence organization yesterday held a demonstration in front the government agency’s headquarters in Taipei.
Chi Wen-ching （紀文清）, head of the Coalition for Taiwan as a Happy Country, called on Control Yuan President Wang Chien-shien to take action to abolish the government organ when his term ends tomorrow.
Chi cited comments Wang made on Friday last week in which he said: “The nation would benefit greatly from the abolishment of the Control Yuan” and that “the Control Yuan is an organization encouraging political reward and wasting public money.”
The Legislative Yuan on Tuesday rejected 11 candidates nominated by President Ma Ying-jeou （馬英九） to succeed the outgoing Control yuan members and approved 16 others in a confirmation vote. The new members will begin their six-year terms tomorrow.
Under the five-branch government system set out by the Constitution, the Control Yuan’s main task is to exercise powers of impeachment and censure against elected officials and civil servants, as well as audit government spending.
Constitutional amendments set Control Yuan members’ terms at six years and empower the president to appoint the agency’s 27 members, plus its president and vice president, subject to the approval of the legislature.
Separately yesterday, Democratic Progressive Party （DPP） Chairperson Tsai Ying-wen （蔡英文） said that the issue of greatest concern regarding the formation of the fifth-term Control Yuan was the list of nominees.
The nominations were made with political gains in mind, not benefitting the nation, leading to great discontent among legislators across party lines, as well as the public, Tsai said.
The Ma administration should not try to nominate more members to the Control Yuan in its second and last term, but should leave the ones approved by the legislature to do their jobs, she added.
Addressing calls to have the Control Yuan at its full 29-member capacity — since 11 nominees were rejected — or risk a Constitutional crisis, Tsai said that in 2004, pan-blue lawmakers’ boycott of the legislative review of then-president Chen Shui-bian’s （陳水扁） candidate list had left the government agency idle for three-and-a-half years.
If the nation did not run into a Constitutional crisis then, it would not do so now, Tsai said.
The implementation of the Constitution should consider the needs of the nation, the public’s expectations of how power should be used and the fluidity of thought created by changing political environs and stages, Tsai said, adding that in the current state of affairs, Taiwanese have greater liberty in interpreting the Constitution.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
