By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerA pledge to defend Taiwan and never surrender has garnered 263 signatures among candidates in Saturday’s local elections, independence advocates said yesterday.
SOURCE OF REFERENCE: Candidates running in the local vote should promise not to encourage people to capitulate or surrender to China, a pro-independence group saidBy Chen Yu-fu and Jason Pan / Staff reporters
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party together with pro-Taiwan independence groups slammed recent government moves at a media briefing yesterday, while also opposing the president’s nomination of People First Party (PFP) Secretary-General Lee Hung-chun (李鴻鈞) as vice president of the Control Yuan.
At the event in Taipei, Taiwan Statebuilding Party Secretary-General Wang Sing-huan (王興煥) said he was disappointed that the government was moving backwards with regard to political reform and pandering to conservative forces by not allowing a Taiwanese historian to serve as a board member of the publicly funded Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS).
Wang and the groups said they were marking May 9