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DPP vows to seek
investigation into Ma, Jiang
By Chris Wang / Staff reporter
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday vowed to keep pushing for an
investigation into President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Premier Jiang Yi-huah’s
(江宜樺) role in the current political strife, but appeared to remain uncertain on
its next step forward after its no-confidence motion against the Cabinet failed
on Friday.
The party’s weekly Central Standing Committee yesterday said that positive
action should be taken to seek the abolishment of the Special Investigation
Division (SID) of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, the truth behind the
division’s wiretaps on the legislature and the establishment of an investigative
committee in the Legislative Yuan, DPP spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) said.
Ma and Jiang should be held accountable for their involvement in the improper
wiretaps, Lin added.
With the media and supporters’ attention focused on the DPP’s next move and
internal conflict over its strategy, the party cautiously discussed the issue
yesterday.
Despite its spokesperson reiterating that the DPP did not rule out follow-up
measures, Lin said the meeting neither discussed whether the party would
initiate a recall or impeachment bid against Ma nor whether it would end the
boycott of the premier’s report to the legislature tomorrow.
Lin said the headquarters would leave the decision on Jiang’s report to the
caucus, which is to go over the issue at a caucus meeting this morning.
Senior party members refused to call the motion a complete failure, but
acknowledged that the DPP could have done better.
Former premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) said the party, which was aware all along that
the motion was unlikely to pass, did not formulate a clear strategic goal.
“If it turns out that none of the trio of Ma, Jiang and Prosecutor-General Huang
Shih-ming (黃世銘) steps down, I would call it a failure, but this political event
is still developing,” Hsieh said.
Former premier Yu Shyi-kun said the DPP had done the right thing because more
than half of the public supported the motion.
Most senior DPP members agreed on one thing — the misrepresentation of the
public’s voice is a serious flaw of representative democracy in Taiwan as
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers chose to side with Ma rather than the
people.
DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) has assigned the constitution study panel
under the DPP think tank to study the feasibility of a Constitution amendment
initiative.
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