Court rules against opposition moves to give legislature investigative power
Court rules against opposition moves to give legislature investigative power
2024-10-25
The constitutional court on Friday came out with a long anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of granting the legislature sweeping investigative powers. This has been backed by opposition lawmakers, who have used their legislative majority to ram the measures through parliament. However, the court struck down nearly all of them on the grounds they were unconstitutional. This included allowing the legislature to impose penalties on people who give false testimony or refuse to hand over information or attend hearings. A requirement for the president to give a state-of-the-nation address on the legislative floor and take questions from lawmakers was also struck down. Let’s hear what ruling party and opposition politicians had to say.
Huang Kuo-chang
TPP caucus whip
This is regrettable to the extreme and it gives the utmost protection to officials from the administration.
Lin Szu-ming
Lawmaker (KMT)
We must be brave and give criticisms that our grand justices are really hired thugs of the ruling party. They gave an extremely restrictive interpretation of our investigation rights.
Ker Chien-ming
DPP caucus whip
All the TPP and KMT press conferences are still just engaging in political manipulation or attacks. When a constitutional interpretation from the grand justices comes out, there are no so-called winners and losers.
Rosalia Wu
Lawmaker (DPP)
For the part that involves investigative powers, so many items were ruled unconstitutional today. TSMC no longer needs to be worried and ordinary people no longer need to be afraid.
The constitutional court ruled that special investigative task forces in the legislature, as the opposition parties had pushed for, were unconstitutional. They were also not allowed to assert investigative powers for cases that were already in litigation. In addition, legislators were not allowed to directly investigate cases that were already being investigated by other government agencies. In addition, a requirement that ordinary people or NGOs provide the legislature with information or get slapped with a fine of up to NT$100,000 is unconstitutional.
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憲法法庭宣判 總統無國情報告義務 要求即問即答違憲
2024-10-25
國會擴權法案釋憲宣判！大法官認定，大部分違憲，立即失效，像是總統國情報告、反質詢罰則、國會調查權等等，來聽聽各黨的回應。
[[民眾黨團總召 黃國昌]]
“令人非常非常遺憾，對於行政官員，呵護備至。”
[[國民黨團首席書記長 林思銘]]
“我們要大膽去批判說，我們的大法官，你真的就是執政黨的打手。調查權做了非常多的一個限縮的解釋。”
[[民進黨團總召 柯建銘]]
“藍白所有記者會還是在做政治操作以及攻擊，大法官釋憲結果出來，沒有所謂誰輸誰贏。”
[[民進黨團幹事長 吳思瑤]]
“在調查權部分，今天違憲項目非常之多，台積電不用擔心了，平民小老百姓大家也不用害怕了。”
在野黨強推的國會聽證、調查權，大法官判定，專案調查小組也違憲，訴訟中案件也不得行使調查權，其他憲政機關調查中的案件，立委更不可以逕行調查。另外，只能要求政府機關提供證言，像是要求人民、團體提供資料，否則最重罰10萬的條文，就是違憲。
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