The Executive Yuan should consider an amendment to Article 7 of the Local Government Act (地方制度法) that would allow separate legislation pertaining to local governments on outlying islands, the Kinmen County Government said yesterday. Kinmen would continue petitioning Taipei to uphold constitutional guarantees of outlying island residents’ basic rights, the county government said, referring to Article 10, Paragraph 11 of the Constitution, which states: “The State shall, in accordance with the will of the ethnic groups, safeguard the status and political participation of the Aborigines... The same protection and assistance shall be given to the people of the Penghu, Kinmen, and