The outcome of December’s referendums would determine the nation’s future, and the public’s interests must not be hijacked by political turmoil created by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership said yesterday.
“This referendum vote is a challenge in the fight for Taiwan’s future, including against the deepening of our nation’s democracy and could even reverse our policy to transition to renewable energy,” President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) told a DPP rally urging people to vote “no” on all four referendum questions
She was joined Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and other prominent party politicians at Taoyuan’s Sanmin Sports Park
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KMT-led referendum proposals clear second hurdle
05/06/2021 10:09 PM
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Taipei, May 6 (CNA) Two referendum proposals initiated by the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) that seek to ban pork imports containing ractopamine and establish a path for future referendums have cleared the second hurdle, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said Thursday, bringing them one step closer to being put to the vote in August.
CEC Deputy Chairman Chen Chao-chien (陳朝建) told CNA on Thursday that the petitions for the two referendums passed the second-stage threshold after all the signatures submitted by the KMT in March were examined.
The CEC will convene a meeting on May 14 to determine whether the two proposals will be put to the vote on Aug. 28, added Chen.
The Taiwan Environmental Protection Union yesterday urged the public to vote against a referendum on activating the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮).
At a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, union president Liu Jyh-jian (劉志堅) and founding chairman Shih Hsin-min (施信民) called for an end to nuclear power.
The Aug. 28 referendum throws another variable into the nation’s future as a “nuclear-free homeland,” Shih said, referring to a referendum led by nuclear power proponent Huang Shih-hsiu (黃士修) that hopes to activate the mothballed Fourth Nuclear