KMT chair election slated for July 24
05/07/2021 07:14 PM
Lee Chien-lung (李乾龍, right) and Lee Che-hua (李哲華). CNA photo May 7, 2021
Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Major opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Secretary-General Lee Chien-lung (李乾龍) announced Friday that the party will hold its election for chairman on July 24.
In line with party regulations, people who want to vie for the party s top post must get a registration form on June 3-4 and then register their candidacy on June 7-8, but both steps come with stiff fees that are being imposed for the first time.
Getting a registration form costs NT$200,000 (US$7,143) and registering one s candidacy requires a NT$3 million processing fee and a deposit of NT$10 million, triggering discontent from some party members.
KMT’s signature drives near record
DISSATISFACTION? If the referendums collect more than 700,000 signatures each, they would have gotten the most signatures in the shortest time, the party said
By Shih Hsiao-kuang
and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) two referendum petitions one on banning the importation of pork with traces of ractopamine and the other on holding referendums on the same day as national elections had as of Thursday gathered 691,398 and 674,497 signatures respectively, the party said yesterday.
If the petitions collect more than 700,000 signatures apiece, they would have garnered the most signatures in the shortest time since the Referendum Act (公民投票法) was amended in 2017, party officials said.
KMT to use recall success to drive pork referendum
By Lin Liang-sheng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is hoping to use the momentum from its successful recall of a Taoyuan city councilor to drive its referendum on the importation of pork containing ractopamine, while eyeing its next recall target, a party official said on Sunday.
Taoyuan City Councilor Wang Hao-yu (王浩宇) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was recalled on Saturday in a vote with a turnout rate of 28 percent in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢).
Although the victory boosted morale among the pan-blue camp, it is likely not replicable elsewhere, the KMT official said.