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KMT to call extra session over Control Yuan, zones
Staff writer, with CNA
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is set to call a two-week extra legislative session this month to review the qualifications of the 28 candidates nominated to the Control Yuan, as well as a bill for the establishment of free economic pilot zones, party whip Lin Hung-chih (林鴻池) said.
Lin, who also heads the KMT Policy Coordination Committee, said the session is to run from July 28 to Aug. 8.
The party controls 65 seats in the 113-seat Legislative Yuan, significantly more than the backing of one-fourth of all lawmakers required to open an extra session.
Lin said that the approval of the nominees for the Control Yuan and the free economic pilot zones bill will be the priority in the extra session.
Both items were on the agenda for an extra session that ran from June 13 to Friday, but proceedings were blocked by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
The 29 nominees have been chosen to fill the vacancies left by outgoing Control Yuan members after their six-year terms end on July 31, while the bill to set up the free economic pilot zones seeks to turn six ports and one airport into areas exempt from trade regulations.
The DPP has threatened to continue to block both items as it questions the credentials of many of the Control Yuan candidates and opposes the pilot economic zones project.
source: Taipei Times
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