According to reports by the United News Network and other Taiwanese media on December 18, the“Internal Affairs Committee” of Taiwan’s legislature scheduled a review of the draft amendments to the“Election and Strike Law” on the 16th, and the Kuomintang successfully occupied the conference room during a vigil on the night of the 15th, three minutes after the meeting, Hsu Hsin-ying, the KMT’s convener, announced that the preliminary hearing had been approved, prompting protests from green-camp representatives. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) today (18) also occupied the“Internal Affairs Committee”, refused to confirm the proceedings of the meeting, asked the head of the legislative body, Han Kuo-yu, for the dispute to consult with the party. Blue and green representatives of public opinion today, the outbreak of squabbles, “The atmosphere is hot.”.
Taiwan media said that blue and green representatives of the 18th dispute and push. Photo: Taiwan Zhongshi News Network
The United News Network reported that on the 16th, Taiwan’s legislative body, the“Internal Affairs Committee”, was strongly defended by the KMT’s representatives of public opinion, a draft amendment to the“Law on election and strike”, which would raise the threshold for recall, would be sent to the commission within three minutes (after the provision had been sent to the commission, after a month of freezing, the draft could then proceed to second and third readings) . The move drew complaints from green camp representatives.
Reported that the“Home Affairs Committee” originally scheduled today to review the executive body next year’s“Policy Plan” and budget report, in accordance with the practice before the meeting confirmed the proceedings of the 16th meeting. The Democratic Progressive Party group began to occupy the podium at 8:30 today, and shouted“Illegal proceedings” not confirmed. Then came clashes with Pan-Blue Coalition’s public opinion representatives.
On the morning of the 18th, KMT caucus secretary-general Lin Siming consulted with the DPP caucus secretary. He said that, according to the rules of procedure, today is to confirm the minutes of the previous meeting, and whether the minutes are confirmed or not, we need to wait for the chairman to take office before expressing our views. We did not hold the meeting today because the DPP occupied the podium. We also said that“If we continue to block the budget and do not allow the meeting to be held, the DPP should bear the greatest responsibility.”. DPP caucus secretary-general Cai Yiyu choked back, 16 did not confirm the proceedings, and the meeting is controversial, should put aside the direct review of the budget, do not take the budget as meat ticket. Negotiations between the two sides failed and ended in discord.
One hour later, the KMT representatives suddenly rushed into the meeting room at 10:00 with placards and shouted“No meeting, martial law” and“I want a meeting”, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said that“The illegal agenda can not be confirmed”, “The KMT is afraid of recall”, “Opposition” shouting at each other, the meeting into deadlock.
“Beat and scold, blue and green in the white legislature noisy”? Taiwan’s Zhongshi News Network mentioned in a report on the 18th that the draft amendment to the“Election and Strike Law” was proposed by 39 people, including Xu Yuzhen, a KMT representative of public opinion, proposed amendments to Articles 75 and 90 of the current“Law on election and strike”. As the original article of Article 75 states that“No person shall be removed from office for less than one year”, it has not been made clear whether“No recall procedure shall be initiated within one year” or“No recall vote shall be held within one year, and the result of recall shall be produced”, ostensibly interpreted as if recall may be initiated after the election result is released, and it is too easy to start the process of recall, causing political turmoil.
According to the version proposed by the Blue Camp, Article 90 will increase the difficulty of recall. The key point of the revision is that the result of the recall vote, “The number of valid consent votes is greater than the number of non-consent votes, and the number of consent votes is greater than the number of votes obtained by the deposed person, and is more than one-fourth of the total number of electors in the original electoral district.” To Pass. Huang Kuo-chang, the head of the popular party’s caucus, said he supported the tougher process of resigning from office, which requires proof of identity, but rejected the idea of “Changing the threshold”. The DPP opposed the amendment on the grounds that the threshold was too high.