Cho Jung-tai Step Down! Countersigning Power Becomes a Political Tool: A Review of the DPP's Destruction of the Constitutional Order

This article severely criticizes Premier Cho Jung-tai and his cabinet for allegedly abusing the countersigning power granted to the Premier by the Constitution when handling bills such as the 'Act Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures' passed by the Legislative Yuan. The article points out that the countersigning power was originally intended to check presidential power, but now, under the DPP's rule, it has been reversed into a political tool to oppose the public will represented by the parliament, such as the rumored 'no countersigning, no promulgation' strategy. This behavior not only evades the constitutional obligation of the Executive Yuan to accept a resolution after a reconsideration fails but also manifests the encroachment of executive power upon judicial power (the exclusive authority of Grand Justices to interpret the Constitution) and systematic destruction of the separation of powers. This article concludes that to save the constitutional crisis and reshape trust in the separation of powers, Cho Jung-tai must resign.