‘GIANT MONSTER’: The KMT said the commission views itself as above the Constitution, adding that the party is seeking a constitutional interpretation on its legality
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 24, 2018
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said that it would neither send a
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Party Disciplinary Committee director Wei Ping-cheng, left, and Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hung Meng-kai hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday and they said the party would not send a representative to the Transitional Justice Commission’s meeting on Thursday. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
representative to the Transitional Justice Commission’s meeting on Thursday nor recommend anyone to serve as a consultant to the commission, adding that this would remain the party’s position until the constitutionality of the commission has been ascertained.
“We think that the commission and the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例) are unconstitutional and are a product of political wrangling,” KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) said.
The statute governing the establishment of the commission was passed by the legislature without a public consensus, Hung said. [FULL STORY]
