Constitution reform
Statement｜All Justice Nominees Rejected: All Parties Are Responsible for Undermining Constitutional Governance!
On the morning of December 24, the Legislative Yuan voted on the Judicial Yuan’s nomination of Justices. All three major political parties employed bloc voting tactics: the Kuomintang (KMT) rejected all seven nominees, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) rejected six, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rejected one. As a result, none of the seven Justice nominees achieved the required 57 votes—a majority of the 113 legislators—and were all rejected. On December 20, when amendments to certain provisions of the Constitutional Court Procedure Act were passed, raising the threshold for Constitutional Court proceedings to require at least ten Justices to…
【Statement】Opposition to the tyranny of the majority that destroys democracy. True democracy comes from substantial deliberation：Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party(TPP) should face citizens’ anger.
Ten years ago, KMT legislator Chang Ching-chung(張慶忠) forcefully passed the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement and sparked the 318 Occupation of the legislative Yuan/Sunflower Student Movement, marking the most pivotal event in Taiwan's recent democratic politics and social movements. Over the past ten years, the Taiwanese people have arduously defended the values of democracy and human rights. However, on May 17, the last working day before the inauguration of the Lai Ching-te administration, Taiwan's democracy has regressed back to more than ten years ago. This was as a result of Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) attempts to violently end discussions and forcibly passed certain provisions into law by leveraging their majority in the legislative yuan.