Joseph Lin Says President Tsai Did Get Angry When Referring to Judicial Reform Issues

Joseph Lin Says President Tsai Did Get Angry When Referring to Judicial Reform Issues

Source: UDN

July 7, 2020

Hsu Yu-hsiu (許玉秀), a former grand justice, contributed an article yesterday to the Storm Media Group, an online media outlet, indicating that in a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) last March, when judicial reform groups complained about certain interactions with the Judicial Yuan (JY), President Tsai harshly reproached JY Secretary-General Lin Hui-huang (林輝煌), who was on the spot, and that President Tsai even instructed Lin to ask Grand Justice Lu Tai-lang (呂太郎) to come to the meeting, as Lu was the immediate-past JY Secretary-General. According to the article, after Lu came to the meeting, in the presence of the civic groups, President Tsai severely scolded Lu. The article elicited concern that President Tsai’s move might violate the constitutional division of powers.

Joseph Lin (林永頌), Chairman of the Judicial Reform Foundation, indicated that President Tsai did get angry when referring to judicial reform issues. Lin also indicated that the civic groups did not ask Grand Justice Lu to attend the meeting, but President Tsai, instead, instructed him to come, adding that institutionally, in a government of five powers, this was apparently inappropriate.

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