jimmywtseng

First of all, this pact or agreement if you will, is currently at an ambiguous status. This is neither a law nor an executive order. This pact, like any other Free Trade Agreements (FTA), should be reviewed and debriefed by legislators in legislature. And also, under the framework of the Constitution of Republic of China (Taiwan), the Legislature has the right and duty to review any agreement that the administration is signing.

But unfortunately, we don't have any law telling legislator how to review any agreements or pacts like this.

Like any other FTA, US-South Korea, US-Canada, they all went through years of thorough researches, evaluations and negotiations, and were all reviewed by congress-level officials. But sadly, we haven't gone through any serious researches and negotiations. And our Executive Yuan (Cabinet) officials tried to sneak this pact in Legislature on March 18th, this action is against and jeopardizing our constitution.

Technically, this cross-strait freetrade pact can't be passed unless Ma administration has done thorough and detailed research and industry impact evaluation, and to be reviewed by Legislature.

Our demands don't keep changing. They are all based on the core value of any democratic country, constitutional rights and rule of laws.

This pact or agreement has no law yet to be reviewed. We urge our legislators to establish a law, a review mechanism for this.