FAIR AND BALANCED:Most of the six nominees have ties to the DPP, the KMT said, while one nominee said that they are all professors with transparent backgrounds
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 07, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged Premier William Lai (賴清德) to
National Central University law professor Chen In-chin, the Democratic Progressive Party’s nominee for Central Election Commission chairman, answers questions from the media yesterday at a meeting of the Internal Administration Committee at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times
rescind the Cabinet’s nominations for the Central Election Commission (CEC) to ensure the agency’s neutrality, citing the nominees’ “green background.”
As members of the nation’s statutory agency responsible for managing local and national elections, they should be politically neutral to ensure that elections are fair, just and independent of political influence, KMT spokesman Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) said.
“However, most of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration’s six nominees have held positions either in the party or its affiliated organizations. This runs counter to the principle of neutrality to which past commission nominees have usually conformed,” Hung told a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
The news conference coincided with a meeting of the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee, which was convened to review for the second time the credentials of the nominees, who are expected to succeed six commission members whose four-year terms expired on Friday. [FULL STORY]