KMT Adopted “Platform on Co-ordination between the Party and the Government”

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KMT Adopted “Platform on Co-ordination between
the Party and the Government”

Sources: KMT

May 8, 2008

After a statement was made on not going back to the route of “a party-led government”, the KMT Central Standing Committee (CSC) yesterday adopted a “Platform on Co-ordination between the Party and the Government.” When the new government is inaugurated, the party would no longer appoint those in the cabinet as members of the CSC. The party would also refrain from inviting top executives to regularly attend the CSC meetings. These measures are intended to deflect criticism that the KMT is reversing the advance of democracy on Taiwan.

As to whether the organization of the CSC needs to be reformed, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung said that “In order to keep an open channel between the CSC and the executive ministries, the CSC in the future will invite top executives to the CSC when there is a specific issue to discuss.”

Chairman Wu added that there would be two tracks in the Party-Government consultation mechanism. One track is the consultation meetings between the various Legislative committees and the deputy ministers of the various ministries, and the other is the policy coordination meeting between key Legislators and key party officials, to be chaired by the director of the KMT Central Policy Committee and attended by either the party chairman or the party secretary-general.

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