On the final weekend before Saturday’s referendum, heavyweights from both major parties yesterday held events to garner support for their parties’ positions on the referendum questions.
On the ballot would be questions related to banning the importation of pork containing traces of the leanness-enhancing feed additive ractopamine, relocating a natural gas terminal project to protect algal reefs off Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音), restarting construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) and holding referendums alongside elections.
Speaking at the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) event in Tainan, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who is DPP chairperson, said