TPP vows to abolish the Control Yuan

SHELL OF A BRANCH: Without new members, the Control Yuan would be unable to investigate, impeach or issue corrective measures, a Control Yuan official said By Lo Kuo-chia, Fang Wei-li, Lin Hsin-han and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) caucus yesterday vowed to abolish the Control Yuan, as the branch’s members have reached their term limits, but no successors have been approved.The legislature has to date refused to hear the Cabinet’s candidates for the Control Yuan. By law, new appointees should have been inaugurated today, after the current members’ terms ended yesterday.The TPP caucus leaders slammed the branch, alleging that it had failed to check government power, protected elites’ malfeasance and lacked ethic