Cabinet requests legislative revote on constitutional procedural amendments

Cabinet requests legislative revote on constitutional procedural amendments

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On Thursday morning, Premier Cho Jung-tai submitted a request for the legislature to reconsider the amendments to the Constitutional Court procedures, citing the need to maintain constitutional order. Now, lawmakers must revote within 15 calendar days. Let’s hear more.

Cho Jung-tai
Premier
The legislature overrode the judiciary with an unreasonable threshold to cause real, substantive impact on the operations of the Constitutional Court. This violates the duty of fidelity to the Constitution by the justices of the Judicial Yuan, and severely hinders the right of the people and institutions to seek remedy or to solve constitutional disputes, which undermines the constitutional order of the country.

Lin Ming-hsin
Minister without portfolio
The revote request must be filed within 10 days. So even if it’s filed the day before the Spring Festival, it’s still within the 10 days. Will the gates to the Legislative Yuan be closed with not a single person inside? But if the mailroom is still working, then putting it up at the door should still count.

A request to revote must be filed within 10 calendar days by the Executive Yuan upon receiving a legislative bill for approval, and the amendments to the constitutional court procedures was received nine days ago, on Dec. 24. Therefore, Lin was probably referring to the other two bills on government budgets and recalling of elected officials, both of which are yet to be sent through.

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行政院提"憲訴法"覆議案賴總統速審:盼再次檢視法案內容

2025-01-02

2025第一天工作日，行政院長卓榮泰召開院會，宣布針對日前立法院三讀通過的憲訴法修正草案，上午正式提出覆議案，要維護憲政體制的健全運作。總統賴清德也火速核可，盼朝野再次檢視法案內容。

[[行政院長卓榮泰]]
“以立法凌駕司法，用不合理門檻，對憲法法庭運作造成實際上實質影響，違反司法院大法官憲法忠誠義務，嚴重影響人民及機關尋求救濟，或解決憲法爭議的權利，對我國憲政秩序造成危害”

[[行政院政務委員林明昕]]
“覆議是十天內提出，春節的前一天送，那十天還是有在跑喔，立法院不會整個門關起來，都半個人都沒有，只要有收發處在，貼在門上也是一種方式”

而日前在野黨聯手強行通過的財劃法、選罷法，目前還沒有送達行政院。若最後選在春節前一天，也就是最後一天上班日，1月24號送達，政院想提覆議的話，必須在2月2號完成作業，因此不排除在農曆年間，加開行政院會處理。

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