Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Voters across Taiwan will cast their ballots in four referendums Dec. 18 that could have a direct impact on the country's pork imports, energy policies, and future referendum arrangements.
By Jason Pan / Staff reporterLeaders of pro-localization organizations yesterday urged the public to vote “no” on tomorrow’s four referendums, as they accused the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） of collaborating with China to ruin Taiwan’s economy and thereby isolate it from the international community.
Millions of Taiwanese are to vote in four referendums on Saturday, with many having to travel to the cities and towns of their registered address to do so.
However, there are concerns that the referendum questions might not reflect public concern. To what extent are they the result of political manipulation?
If the vote on Saturday is the result of a political agenda, that would be a failure of the legislative process.
Two of the referendums on imports of pork containing traces of ractopamine and holding major elections and referendums together were initiated by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
A third, on
By Jonathan Chin / Staff writerAn environmental advocacy group yesterday urged people to vote “no” to two of the questions in Saturday’s referendums: restarting construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District （貢寮） and relocating a planned liquefied natural gas （LNG） terminal to protect algal reefs off Taoyuan’s Guanyin District （觀音）.
An environmental advocacy group yesterday urged people to vote “no” to two of the questions in Saturday’s referendums: restarting construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) and relocating a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to protect algal reefs off Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音).
In a news release, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union said that proponents of the nuclear power plant have made numerous false claims, which the Executive Yuan failed to fully debunk in the Referendum Bulletin issued by the Central Election Commission to explain both sides of the referendum issues.
The Executive Yuan