A scuffle broke out between lawmakers of Taiwan’s two major political parties at the Legislature on Tuesday over the nomination for the new head of the Control Yuan. The Control Yuan is the nation’s top government watchdog.
Members of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) attempted to block former Presidential Office Secretary-General Chen Chu from entering the Legislature building. The Legislature is scheduled to begin a three-day review of the nominees for the Control Yuan on Tuesday.
Chen was Kaohsiung mayor from 2006 to 2018 and then served as Presidential Office secretary-general up until May this year. She was nominated by President Tsai Ing-wen to head the Control Yuan.
Since the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has a majority of seats in the legislature, Chen will likely become the new president of the Control Yuan. The opposition KMT is trying to block the confirmation by preventing the vote from happening which is scheduled for Friday.
The KMT argued against Chen’s nomination on grounds that some members of her Kaohsiung administration had been impeached by the Control Yuan, and that she would lack impartiality as a longtime member of the ruling DPP and as a former aide to President Tsai.