Legislature votes to extend current session until Jan. 31, 2026

Taipei, Dec. 19 (CNA) The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People's Party (TPP) used their combined legislative majority on Friday to vote to extend the current Legislative Yuan session until Jan. 31, 2026.

The two opposition parties, which together control 62 of the body's 113 seats, outvoted ruling Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers 59-49 to extend the session.

Taiwan's Legislature meets in two regular sessions each year: one from February to the end of May, and the other from September to the end of December.

According to the TPP caucus, it recently put forth the proposal because the Executive Yuan did not prepare the 2026 budget for military and police pay in accordance with the law, leaving the 2026 central government budget stalled and preventing substantive committee review.