‘COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE’:Civic groups said a delay in the judicial reform congress was necessary because Tsai’s nominees have never pushed for reforms

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 22, 2016
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should consider delaying a planned judicial reform congress to allow more time for consideration of Judicial Yuan presidential and vice presidential nominees, civic groups said yesterday.

“Nominations should not be made hastily just because of the judicial reform congress — in fact, the congress is important enough that it would be acceptable to push it back a bit,” Grand Justice Selection Civic Watchdog Alliance (民間監督大法官人選聯盟) convener Chiu Hei-yuan (瞿海源) said after activists emerged from a meeting with Tsai at the Presidential Office Building yesterday.

Tsai in her inaugural address promised to call a judicial reform congress on increasing civic participation in the judiciary in October.     [FULL  STORY]