18 Facts About Control Yuan

1.

Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China .

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All members, including the President and Vice President of Control Yuan, shall be nominated by the President of the Republic and approved by Legislative Yuan .

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3.

Control Yuan is responsible to investigate possible violations on laws and regulations of public servants and raise impeachments if needed.

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4.

Concept of Control Yuan was introduced by Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People.

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5.

Control Yuan designed the Control Yuan to be a chamber of parliament that is indirectly elected by the provincial legislatures of China.

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6.

The Control Yuan has some similarities to the United States Senate, which allocated a similar number of seats to each province of China and holds the power to confirm many important public positions in the Judicial Yuan and Examination Yuan appointed by the President of the Republic.

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The Control Yuan was given the power to request documents from other government agencies and investigate them for violations of law or neglect as under Sun Yat-sen's ideology.

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8.

Finally, the Control Yuan had confirmation power for the President, Vice President and members of the Judicial Yuan and Examination Yuan.

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9.

Under the constitution, members of the Control Yuan were elected from regional legislatures: 5 from each province, 2 from each direct-administered municipality, 8 from Mongolia, 8 from Tibet, and 8 from the overseas Chinese communities.

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10.

The first Control Yuan then confirmed the leaders and members of the first Judicial Yuan and Examination Yuan.

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11.

The Control Yuan occupied the former governmental building of Taihoku Prefecture in Japanese era.

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12.

Decision process of leaders and members of the Control Yuan follows a similar pattern of Judicial Yuan and Examination Yuan.

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13.

The Legislative Control Yuan was the surviving chamber and the National Assembly was then abolished.

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14.

Since 25 April 2000, confirmation of leaders and members of the Control Yuan are transferred to Legislative Yuan, together with the confirmation of similar officials of Judicial Yuan and Examination Yuan.

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15.

The coalition of Kuomintang and People First Party, which then held a majority in the Legislative Control Yuan, refused to ratify President Chen's nominees and demanded that he submit a new list.

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16.

Control Yuan was a chamber of parliament under the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China.

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17.

The President and Vice President of the Control Yuan were elected by and from the members like the speaker of many other parliamentary bodies.

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18.

Since the 1992 ratification of the constitutional amendment, the Control Yuan was reorganized from a chamber of parliament to an independent agency that still performs most of its designated constitutional powers.

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