Cabinet rebuts claims of nepotism at digital ministryBy Lee Hsin-fang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerCandidates to work at the Ministry of Digital Affairs would not be selected based on their personal ties with other government officials, the Executive Yuan said yesterday. The ministry, which was officially established yesterday, is planning to hire 300 contract workers, and the process would be in line with government regulations, the Cabinet added. President Tsai Ing-wen, third right, Premier Su Tseng-chang, second right, and others attend the inauguration ceremony for the Ministry of Digital Affairs in Taipei yesterday. A Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that half of the ministry’s staff would be contract workers. The legislature last year passed the organization act of the ministry alongside two related pieces of legislation — the Organization Act for the Ministry of Digital Affairs’ Information Security Bureau (數位發展部資通安全署組織法) and the Organization Act for the Ministry of Digital Affairs’ Digital Industry Bureau (數位發展部資通安全署組織法).
