Zhuo Rongtai said that not countersigning is a passive and necessary approach. The Kuomintang League: No matter how much you talk to others, it will be redundant.

In his speech at the National Day Convention, Legislative Yuan Han Kuo-yu mentioned that the Executive Yuan’s failure to countersign bills affects democracy. Executive President Cheuk Wing-tai said today that not countersigning is a passive and necessary approach. In this regard, Xu Yuzhen, secretary-general of the Kuomintang League, criticized that as an executive president, he regards his own will as the constitution and the resolutions of the Congress as unconstitutional. No amount of talking is superfluous.

Zhuo Rongtai continued to go to the Legislative Yuan today to deliver the policy address and prepare for questions. Zhuo said in an interview before the consultation that the executive and legislative chambers have different opinions on the spirit of constitutionalism, constitutional order, and the separation of powers between the two chambers. In the past, for unconstitutional and illegal bills and budgets, the Executive Yuan was unable to obtain "final justice" through review and interpretation by the justices. Therefore, based on the maintenance of constitutional order, he adopted the constitutional power and obligation of not countersigning. This is a passive and necessary approach.

Xu Yuzhen pointed out that Hanguo-yu called on President Lai Qingde to resolve the deadlock between the executive and legislative chambers and show his sincerity in seeking dialogue, but Zhuo Rongtai still passed the responsibility to the Legislative Yuan, and even described non-countersigning as a necessary means to safeguard constitutionalism. The Executive Yuan can lodge a review or seek relief through constitutional interpretation, but it cannot think that it has the power to decide which laws should be implemented just because the results are not as expected. If the Executive Yuan can arbitrarily negate legislative achievements, wouldn’t the separation of powers become empty talk?

Xu Yuzhen was sarcastic. To put it bluntly, in fact, Zhuo Rongtai cannot be entirely blamed. After all, he is only the Executive President. It is President Lai Ching-te who really controls the political direction and is never willing to let go. Zhuo Rongtai said that he wanted to defend constitutionalism, but he did not dare to face the root of the political deadlock; Lai Qingde repeatedly emphasized democracy, but he was still unable to accept the political reality of a small government and a large opposition. One is responsible for standing on the front line and acting tough, while the other sits in the presidential palace and clings to power, turning the Executive Yuan into a political factory for political confrontation.

Xu Yuzhen emphasized that the value of democracy lies in the fact that those in power must learn to accept different public opinions and not regard all opposition voices as obstacles. Han Guoyu has shown goodwill. The problem has never been that the Legislative Yuan is unwilling to communicate, but whether the people in power are willing to let go of their egocentric mentality. To untie the bell, one must tie the bell. If Lai Ching-de continues to cling to power, no matter how many principles of constitutionalism he preaches, he will only be playing the lute to an ox.