The recall of former Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) the party’s only member of the Legislative Yuan in Taichung’s second electoral district has raised questions about whether the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act (公職人員選舉罷免法) needs to be amended again.
The most high-level advocate of this idea is former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Lin Cho-shui (林濁水).
Lin believes that Chen’s recall was the direct result of the rush in 2016 to amend the original version of the act. The DPP at the time supported the amendment, which lowered the requirements for a recall.
Lin says that the
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