CLOSE SCRUTINY:Each caucus member is to be allowed to join two of the four task forces, which are to operate continually, to enable swifter decisionmaking
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 08, 2017
By: Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus has outlined plans to form four task
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Vice Chairman Tseng Yung-chuan, right, and KMT caucus secretary-general Lin Wei-chou attend a meeting of the KMT legislative caucus at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Friday. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
forces focusing on proposed constitutional reforms; the one fixed day off, one flexible rest day workweek policy; tax reform; and energy policy.
The caucus on Friday called an internal meeting, during which it tapped KMT legislators Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安), William Tseng (曾銘宗) and Wang Hui-mei (王惠美) to devise strategies on constitutional reform, the workweek policy, tax reform and energy policy respectively.
Calling the appointments “restructuring” within the caucus, KMT caucus secretary-general Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) said it created the task forces based on the success of a similar model it employed while monitoring the Cabinet’s Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program.
The four units are expected to bolster arguments put forward by the KMT caucus when it scrutinizes the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) governance, Lin said, adding that the National Policy Foundation — the KMT’s think tank — would also help. [FULL STORY]
