EY President: Cutting EY Membership May Be Unconstitutional

 EY President: Cutting EY Membership May Be Unconstitutional

Source: All Taipei Newspapers

April 19, 2019

On April 11, the Legislative Judiciary and Laws Committee adopted an initial review of an amendment bill to the "Examination Yuan Organic Act," in which the number of EY members would be cut from the existing nineteen to three, and their term of office would be reduced from six to four years. The bill would be submitted to caucus-to-caucus consultations after a “one-month cooling period” between the ruling and opposition parties.

As the amendment bill was tantamount to “dwarfing” the EY, EY President Wu Jin-lin (伍錦霖) made solemn remarks in the EY plenary session yesterday, saying that the bill, if passed, would have a severe impact on the nation’s system and operations of constitutional government, with the result that the EY’s power and functions vested by the Constitution would be hard to implement effectively.

Wu stressed that the ROC Constitution specifically stipulated the five-power system, adding that if the Legislative Yuan undermined the civil service system, under the purview of the EY, infringing on people’s rights and interests by railroading the bill with misgivings of unconstitutionality, he would not sit idly by.

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