The Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation has released the results of its latest poll. Respondents were asked about Chen Chu becoming Control Yuan president and 43 percent of people say Chen Chu is suitable while 42 percent say she is not. Meanwhile, ruling and opposition lawmakers are both calling for the abolishment of the Examination Yuan and Control Yuan. The poll showed it is a polarizing issue.


After lawmakers confirmed the government's Control Yuan appointments and passed various bills, President Tsai Ing-wen vowed to amend the constitution and abolish the Control Yuan and Examination Yuan. According to a new Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll, 43 percent of people say Chen Chu is a suitable Control Yuan president while 42 percent say she is not. In addition, 40 and 45 percent, respectively, support abolishing the Examination Yuan and Control Yuan.

The foundation says Tsai proposed constitutional reforms without doing any kind of preparatory work and the Democratic Progressive Party caucus using its majority to force through the Control Yuan appointment during an extraordinary session along the citizen judge bill show that Tsai is running an oligarchy.

Voters are very pessimistic about constitutional reform, the main reason being Tsai Ing-wen's careless and aimless approach towards constitutional reform.

The DPP has gone missing. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been talking about abolishing the Examination Yuan and Control Yuan for decades and people wouldn't be mocking them for their false promises. This administration really is not very progressive at all.

In addition, 58.6 percent of poll respondents said they are satisfied with Tsai's performance while 34 percent said they were not. Former Tainan County Magistrate Su Huan-chih says Taiwan is a strategic pawn in US-China relations and the Tsai administration is benefiting. The KMT will release its own version of constitutional revisions next week.

There is kind of a consensus on (the Examination Yuan and Control Yuan) are part of the constitution, but more discussion will be needed on the reallocation of their duties.

Lin Wei-chou says there is a consensus on abolishing the Examination Yuan and Control Yuan and the next series of discussions will focus on how to reallocate the duties of the two yuans. However, there are also concerns within the KMT about the impact of eliminating one or two of the five branches of government.



7月立法院臨時會通過監察院人事權與各項法案，總統蔡英文日前也在全代會承諾，推動憲政改革優先處理廢考監，台灣民意基金會27號公布最新民調，針對陳菊出任監察院長，有四成三的民眾認為適當、四成二認為不恰當。對於廢考監，各約有四成到四成五的民眾贊成。

民眾對廢考監的態度分歧，游盈隆認為，蔡英文提出憲政改革，卻沒有任何準備動作，加上立院臨時會強行通過監院人事、和參審制等重大法案，讓蔡英文形成寡頭政治。

台灣民意基金會董事長 游盈隆表示：「選民對憲政改革是意興闌珊，那原因是什麼？我發現最重要的原因是，蔡英文推動憲政改革是漫不經心，也不知道到底要往哪個方向走？」

民進黨前立委 林濁水表示：「民進黨是失蹤的，要不然，才不會說，廢考、監兩院，廢了十幾年，還被人家嘲笑是玩假的，這樣的一個政黨，實在很不進步。」

雖然司改廢考監等議題，砲口都指向蔡總統，但這分民調，對蔡英文的施政滿意度，調查有58.6%民眾贊同，34.%不贊同，前台南縣長蘇煥智認為，台灣陷入美中戰略，受美國重視，大環境對蔡政府有利使然。不過國民黨也在27號召開黨團大會，討論修憲案展開部屬，預計下周提出國民黨版本。

國民黨黨團總召 林為洲表示：「（考、監院)作為憲政機關這個機構，大家都比較有共識，可能不需要，至於它的職權怎麼分派？可能有不同版本內容。」

林為洲表示廢考監是目前共識，接下來要討論的是考監兩院的權利如何分派。不過國民黨內部對於廢考監，恐怕衝擊五權分立，仍有不同主張。