Legislative Yuan

Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China 中華民國立法院
11th Legislative Yuan
Type
Type	Unicameral Lower house (1947–2005)
History
Founded	5 December 1928; 95 years ago (1928-12-05) (pre-1947 Constitution) 18 May 1948; 75 years ago (1948-05-18) (1947 Constitution)[1][2] 24 February 1950; 74 years ago (1950-02-24) (Taiwan) 7 June 2005; 18 years ago (2005-06-07) (current form)
Disbanded	1 October 1949; 74 years ago (1949-10-01) (mainland) 7 December 1949; 74 years ago (1949-12-07) (government relocated)
Preceded by	National Assembly
Leadership
President	Han Kuo-yu (KMT) since 1 February 2024
Vice President	Johnny Chiang (KMT) since 1 February 2024
Caucus Leaders	Fu Kun-chi (KMT) Ker Chien-ming (DPP) Huang Kuo-chang (TPP) since 1 February 2024
Secretary General	Chester W. L. Chou (Independent) since 5 February 2024
Structure
Seats	113[a]
Political groups	Minority Government   DPP (51) Opposition KMT Caucus (54)   KMT (52)   Independent (2)   TPP (8)
Length of term	4 years
Elections
Voting system	Parallel voting: 73 seats by FPTP 34 seats by party-list PR using largest remainder method with Hare quota 6 seats by SNTV
Last election	13 January 2024
Meeting place
The Legislative Yuan Building, No. 1, Zhongshan South Road Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Republic of China
Website
www.ly.gov.tw (in English)
Constitution
Additional Articles and the original Constitution of the Republic of China

Politics of Taiwan
Government Constitution Additional Articles of the Constitution Freedom of religion (Article 13) Law Taxation
Presidency President of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen  / Lai Ching-te (elect) (DPP) Vice President-elect of the Republic of China Lai Ching-te / Hsiao Bi-khim (elect) (DPP) Office of the President National Security Council
Executive Executive Yuan Premier Chen Chien-jen (DPP) Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan (DPP)
Legislature 11th Legislative Yuan Legislative Yuan President of the Legislative Yuan Han Kuo-yu (KMT) Vice President of the Legislative Yuan Johnny Chiang (KMT) National Assembly (defunct) Control Yuan (chamber defunct)
Judiciary Judicial Yuan President of the Judicial Yuan and Chief Justice Hsu Tzong-li Vice President of the Judicial Yuan Tsai Jeong-duen Supreme Court High Courts District Courts
Other branches Examination Yuan President of the Examination Yuan Huang Jong-tsun Vice President of the Examination Yuan Chou Hung-hsien Control Yuan President of the Control Yuan Chen Chu Vice President of the Control Yuan Lee Hung-chun Local government Mayors and Magistrates
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The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for four-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel voting system.

Originally located in Nanjing, the Legislative Yuan, along with the National Assembly (electoral college) and the Control Yuan (upper house), formed the tricameral parliament under the original 1947 Constitution. The Legislative Yuan previously had 759 members representing each constituencies of all provinces, municipalities, Tibet Area, Outer Mongolia, and various professions.

Until democratization, the Republic of China was an authoritarian state under Dang Guo. At the time, the Legislative Yuan functioned as a rubber stamp for the ruling regime of the Kuomintang.^[3]

Like parliaments or congresses of other countries, the Legislative Yuan is responsible for the passage of legislation, which is then sent to the president for signing. For these similarities, it is also common for people to refer to the Legislative Yuan as "the parliament" (國會; Guóhuì; Kok-hōe).

Under the current amended Constitution and in accordance with the separation of powers, the Legislative Yuan, as the only parliamentary body, also holds the power to initiate several constitutional processes, including initiating constitutional amendments (then determined by a national referendum), recalls of the president (then determined by a recall vote), and impeachments of the president (then tried by the Constitutional Court).

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