{"id":7841,"date":"2026-01-15T07:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:25:31","slug":"impeachment-is-only-the-beginning-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7841","title":{"rendered":"\u201cImpeachment\u201d is only the beginning of sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a report by\u201cNewtalk News\u201d and other Taiwanese media on January 14, the KMT caucus and the People’s Party caucus in Taiwan’s legislature recently filed an\u201cImpeachment case\u201d against Lai ching-teh, and held public hearings on the 14th and 15th, public figures were invited to express their views. Lin Tengyao, a retired professor from the law department of Taiwan’s Tunghai University, attended and spoke at the invitation of the Popular Party group. He severely criticized Lai ching-teh’s\u201cAdministration\u201d and\u201cConstitutionalism\u201d, \u201cImpeachment is only the beginning of sanctions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\nLin Tengyao speaks at a public hearing. Photograph: Taiwan Media<\/p>\n

According to the report, Lin Tengyao believes that wrong policies are worse than corruption, improper personnel arrangements are worse than corruption, and even worse is abusing public power and squandering the tax money of the Taiwanese people, therefore, it is necessary to put Lai Ching-teh’s first year and seven months in office under the Sun.<\/p>\n

Lin listed LAI’s\u201cTop 10 vices\u201d, including: \u201cBetraying the people and violating the ‘constitutional’ duty of loyalty\u201d; \u201cNot promulgating laws and regulations in accordance with the constitution and not administrating according to law\u201d; Throughout the year, they manipulated and instigated the\u201cGeneral dismissal\u201d of public opinion representatives; together with administrative and supervisory organs, and the Democratic Progressive Party caucus, they applied for the\u201cInterpretation of the Constitution.\u201d It has eroded the power of the legislature and overturned the legislative reforms advocated by the DPP in the past The head of the supervisory organ who had been on sick leave for a year was not allowed to resign, allowing the function of the supervisory organ to deteriorate; \u201cDisregarding the people’s livelihood and failing in overall governance\u201d, yet he frequently went to the countryside to carry out political mobilization, it even amounts to demeaning the leadership of the Taiwan region.<\/p>\n

According to an earlier report, in response to the failure of Taiwan’s administrative agencies to countersign the amendment to the\u201cLaw on the division of fiscal revenue and expenditure,\u201d the KMT legislative and popular party groups initiated the relevant procedures for\u201cImpeaching Lai ching-teh\u201d at the end of 2025, on December 26,2025, the Legislative Assembly voted to impeach him, and two public hearings will be held on January 14 and 15,2026. The procedure committee of Taiwan’s legislature discussed the agenda of the\u201cImpeachment case\u201d on the 13th, and finally decided to hold the third session of the\u201cFull House Committee\u201d on the 21st and 22nd. Lai Ching-teh will be invited to attend for explanation and consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a report by\u201cNewtalk News\u201d and other Taiwanese media on January 14, the KMT caucus and the People’s Party caucus in Taiwan’s legislature recently filed an\u201cImpeachment case\u201d against Lai… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,265],"tags":[1252,4161,737,1710,4162],"views":134,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7843,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}