POLITICAL MISSION: Attendees at a public hearing said Tsai Ing-wen’s nominations were clearly politically biased or were too inexperienced to credibly fulfill the new role
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 12, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Representatives of the public yesterday clashed over President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文)
Deputy Legislative Speaker Tsai Chi-chang, center, speaks at a public hearing at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday on the nominations of Control Yuan members. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
follow-up nominations of Control Yuan members, with members of the pan-blue camp calling the nominations biased.
The Legislative Yuan held a hearing to solicit views from the public on nominations to fill 11 seats left vacant after 29 members retired in 2014 during former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) term.
Yeh Ching-yuan (葉慶元), a lawyer for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), targeted nominee Chen Shih-meng (陳師孟), who served as Presidential Office secretary-general under then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).
Chen Shih-meng allegedly said that, if approved, he would purge certain law enforcers whom he deemed to be “leftovers from the party-state era,” which shows that he has a distinct political stance, Yeh said. [FULL STORY]
