Ko favors elevating Cabinet’s role if elected presidentStaff writer, with CNATaiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said he would elevate the Cabinet’s role in government, enshrine a parliamentary system into the Constitution and create the position of prime minister if elected. Taiwan People’s Party Chairman and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Next year’s election is a good opportunity to end the autocratic presidential system and return the power to the people, Ko said. If elected, he said he would abolish what he calls the “elective monarchy system” and replace it with a Cabinet-run government. Democratic Progressive Party spokesman Chang Chih-hao (張志豪) said Ko was contradicting himself, because while he is ostensibly pushing to elevate the Cabinet’s role, he is a monarchist at heart.
