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作者： 洪健昭 ( 2007年4月18日 17:12)
關鍵字：NCC

Premier Su Tseng-chang has suspended two commissioners of the National Communications Commission for hiring their relatives as chauffeurs of their government-provided cars.They are being referred to the Control Yuan for censure or impeachment. The NCC is making two appeals.One of them filed with the Executive Yuan asks for a review of the suspension order.The other requests the Taiwan High Administrative Court to rescind that order.The chances are that both appeals will be rejected.

In suspending the two commissioners, Premier Su cited a refrainment rule for public functionaries they have violated and gave written warnings to Su Yung-chin, NCC chairman, and his vice chairman for approving the employment of the chauffeurs, one of them a son and the other a brother-in-law.The two NCC chiefs were peeved because they know Su himself hired a sister-in-law, who is a first cousin of his wife, as a Taipei county government inspector while he was magistrate at Banqiao.

The NCC cried foul, claiming the premier was applying a double standard on the one hand and trying to punish those who are not under his jurisdiction.The Cabinet, of course, came out to defend the premier, who his spokeswoman said has every right to suspend the two commissioners and discipline their superiors.

The Cabinet has never hidden its strong dislike of the NCC since it was founded to take over a large part of the functions of the Government Information Office.The commission is considered unruly, because its commissioners were appointed according to the proportional representation of political parties in the Legislative Yuan.As the opposition controls a parliamentary majority, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party cannot dominate the NCC.Frank Hsieh, whom Premier Su replaced, requested a ruling of the constitutionality of the NCC by the Council of Grand Justices.The ruling did not satisfy the Cabinet.The grand justices ruled the NCC constitutional, albeit the appointment of its commissioners may not be.However, the ruling allows the NCC to operate legally with a proviso that it should amend the appointment process before the end of 2009.

Since it is stuck with a non-cooperating NCC, the best the Cabinet can do is to try to tame it.The disciplinary action was taken to warn against failure to toe the government line after the NCC had not punished the TVBS cable network to the satisfaction of the powers that be.The station, the DPP’s public enemy No. 1, aired a fabricated report showing a mobster threatening to kill his capo earlier this month.The NCC did not suspend the TVBS news program.

（本文刊載於96.04.16 China Post第4版，本文代表作者個人意見）

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