Ke Jianming, the general leader of the DPP Legislative Yuan group.Figure: New head case file photo
The case of non-party legislator Lin Changzuo’s recall was not passed, and the revision of the “Election Law” was discussed once more. Ke Jianming, the general leader of the Democratic Progressive Party of the Legislative Yuan, said today (13) days that if the non-DPP insisted on leaving the voting rate threshold, the former legislator Huang Guochang was not a legislator for a long time. “It is not an exaggeration to say that President Ke summoned Huang Guochang to the rescue.” He appealed that the time has come to re-examine the entire recall system.
Ke Jianming posted a post on Facebook early this morning to look back on the history of law revisions. He said that the debate over the threshold for recall was triggered by Nuclear Fourth. On June 30, 1994, the four committees of the Legislative Yuan, including economics and budget, jointly reviewed the review. The annual budget of the fourth factory was 112.5 billion yuan. On the same day, there was an anti-nuclear petition with thousands of people in front of the Legislative Yuan. Before the event, the anti-nuclear group led by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Alliance also launched a “movement to remove pro-nuclear legislators”, mainly targeting KMT legislators, including former KMT Chairman Hong Xiuzhu, former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, Legislative Yuan Secretary-General Lin Zhijia and others.
Ke Jianming said that this recall campaign received considerable repercussions, and the goal was to vote together with the provincial governor election on December 3 of that year. After that, the Kuomintang saw the signs of something wrong and immediately took action. To revise the law, complete three readings in one day.
Ke Jianming further stated that on October 20, 1994, the Kuomintang, led by Zeng Yongquan, proposed to amend the “Election and Recall Law”, raising the threshold for passing the recall to the “Double Two-One Threshold” and raising the threshold for the number of co-signers. Get the case through the third reading in one day.
Ke Jianming said that on September 18, 2012, the then Kuomintang legislator Qiu Wenyan proposed amendments to the “Election and Recall Law”. In the proposal and co-signing of the recall case, a copy of the closing letter and the national ID card were attached. Originally, this case should lie in the Legislative Yuan. However, in August 2013, when “Feng Guangyuan dismissed Wu Yusheng”, the Kuomintang took the case out of the committee for a second reading, which was resisted by the Democratic Progressive Party and the Taiwan Federation.
Ke Jianming mentioned that in 2016, the DPP gained the ruling power, and the Legislative Yuan also completed more than half of it alone. On April 14 of the same year, the Internal Affairs Committee passed the preliminary review. The draft amendment to the “Election and Recall Law” deleted the stipulation that recalls should not be publicized, and the reduction and recall was passed. The threshold is “yes votes reach 1/4 of the total number of electors and the number of yes votes is greater than the number of disagreed votes”.
Ke Jianming pointed out that in the process of amending the law in 2016, the power of the times advocated that a “simple majority vote” should be adopted to pass the recall and abolish the threshold for the voter turnout. He continued to criticize and abuse him, insulting him and the DPP with words such as anti-democracy and forgetting the original intention following he came into power. In the past 6 years, following many recall cases, “Looking back at the criticism of myself and the party back then, it was actually quite ridiculous. of”.
“If it weren’t for the 1/4 voter turnout threshold that the DPP insisted on, Huang Guochang would have voted as early as December 16, 2017, and he would not be a legislator. It is not an exaggeration to say that President Ke called Huang Guochang to the rescue!” Ke Jianming emphasized that what we should think regarding now is that the time for re-examination of the entire recall system has come.
Ke Jianming said, “Do public opinion representatives apply the same system of dismissal as the executive head?” Regarding this issue, he believed that it would be most appropriate to leave it to the justices to explain; Precipitation and reflection, it’s time to choose the law! He shouted to Kuomintang Chairman Zhu Lilun, “What do you think?”
Claiming to have saved Huang Guochang and Ke Jianming: The time has come to re-examine the election
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