Taiwan’s legislature has confirmed four grand justice nominations. The move on Friday means that all 15 justices on the Constitutional Court are now appointees of President Ma Ying-jeou. In Taiwan, grand justices serve terms of no more than eight years.
More than half of the lawmakers from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) opposed the nomination of two of the justices. However, the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) had the numbers to give all four nominees a majority vote.
One of the two nominees who faced wide opposition from the DPP was Deputy Minister of Justice Wu Chen-huan, who was approved with 65 votes in favor and 41 opposed. The other was Shihlin District Court President Lin Jyun-yi, with 63 votes in favor, and 43 opposed.
The other two newly approved grand justices, who both received wider approval, are law professor Tsai Ming-cheng and lawyer Huang Horng-shya.