<strong>Fix presidential funds</strong>
The Legislative Yuan passed an amendment to Article 99-1 of the Accounting Act (會計法) on Monday amid chaotic protests by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators that resulted in damage to the portrait of Sun Yat-sen (孫中山) behind the speaker’s podium.
The “special allowance funds” used by officials other than the president for discretionary public relations purposes, such as rewards and gifts, and the “special state affairs fund” allocated by the president are essentially the same thing, despite their different names.
Former presidents Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) had disputes over their use of special state affairs funds or
<strong>Abolish government branches</strong>
People First Party Secretary-General Lee Hung-chun (李鴻鈞), who President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has nominated for vice president of the Control Yuan, has said that the Executive Yuan is an independent, separate branch of government and should not have any political party baggage.
He has also said that he does not oppose abolishing the Control Yuan, but if its duties of investigation and impeachment are transferred to the Legislative Yuan before the government has completed the reform process, the legislature would have too much power.
When the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was in opposition, it put all of its weight behind
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