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Blue camp says it backs referendum legislation

Saying it supports referendum legislation, the KMT-PFP alliance said yesterday it wants a law passed soon to provide a legal basis for a referendum on the fate of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant.

"The position of both the KMT and the PFP is that if the DPP administration wishes to hold a referendum, then there should be no delay in the passage of legislation to establish the legal basis for such a practice," said KMT spokesman Alex Tsai (蔡正元).

Tsai said the nation risks a constitutional crisis if a referendum is held without a legal framework in place.

While the opposition alliance is willing to support the passage of a referendum law, he said, "the DPP administration should be responsible for whatever outcome there may be once the referendum is held."

The alliance will not state an opinion on which party's version of the bill should be passed, Tsai said.

KMT Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and his PFP counterpart James Soong (宋楚瑜) refused to comment yesterday on Chen's call for a referendum.

Lien said only that "[one] ought not to run wild and defy laws," and referred the media to a three-point statement issued by KMT Secretary-General Lin Fong-cheng (林豐正) and PFP Secretary-General Tsai Chung-hsiung (蔡鐘雄).

The statement said that the alliance will promote referendum legislation, that construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should not be delayed and that a law on the construction of the nuclear power plant should be passed as soon as possible.

Responding to the blue camp's plan to hold a referendum in August, Cabinet Spokesman Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said the Cabinet needs at least two months to prepare for holding a referendum once legislation is enacted.
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