Free China Movement (FCM) has published its Seven-Law Transition Package, an integrated model legislative framework for a future democratic transition in mainland China.
The package is designed to move debate from broad principles to concrete legal architecture. It addresses the immediate questions a transition would raise: who may exercise temporary authority, how military and security institutions move under civilian control, how courts and essential services continue, how archives are protected, how victims obtain remedies, how local elections begin, and how temporary institutions are prevented from becoming permanent by inertia.
The seven laws are:
- Mainland Democratic Transition & Transitional Governance Basic Law
- National Security Sector Democratic Transition & Military Nationalization
- Transitional Justice, Accountability, Vetting & Reparations
- Archives, Truth & Institutional Vetting
- Economic & Social Continuity
- Local Democracy, Elections & Self-Government
- Constitutional Integration & National Elections
The package uses the ROC constitutional and legal order as the domestic legal starting point where applicable, while reserving permanent constitutional choices to future democratically authorized procedures. Transitional powers are drafted as enumerated, time-limited, reviewable and subject to anti-evasion safeguards.
The package has completed law-by-law review, cross-law conflict review, whole-package authority review, bad-faith abuse testing, implementation simulation from Day 0 through Year 1, and public-text sanitation. The current texts are adoption candidates only. They are not current ROC law, PRC law or enacted transition law.
Read the package:
English — Seven-Law Transition Package
简体中文 — 七法过渡法律包
FCM welcomes legal, constitutional, public-policy and civil-society scrutiny of the package, including proposed amendments, identified conflicts and alternative implementation designs.