Ruling upholds ill-gotten assets act, committee‘NOT SURPRISED’: The KMT said the ruling was expected, as the DPP had chosen the justices, but the committee said it was an important ruling for transitional justiceBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Council of Grand Justices yesterday ruled that provisions of the Act Governing the Settlement of Ill-gotten Properties by Political Parties and Their Affiliate Organizations (政黨及其附隨組織不當取得財產處理條例) are constitutional. Photographers take pictures of the plaque outside the Executive Yuan’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee’s offices in Taipei on Aug. 31, 2016. The grand justices also said there was no breach of the Constitution in establishing the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee, and the committee’s authority did not contravene the “division of government power” under the Constitution. “Therefore, corrective measures should be taken to build an environment for fair competition among all political parties, and to ensure ‘constitutional order of liberal democracy.’”“For our democracy, under the rule of law with a plurality of political parties, it is essential to have fair and equal competition among all political parties, and therefore some appropriate measures are needed to regulate the finances of political parties,” Lin said. KMT Culture and Communications Committee chairwoman Alicia Wang (王育敏) added that members of the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee have certain political leanings.

Source: Taipei Times August 28, 2020 15:56 UTC