Sun, Jan 18, 2004 - Page 1 News List

Opposition calls referendum `illegal, a joke'

DEAD AGAINST IT The pan-blue alliance yesterday slammed Chen's planned referendum and said it would go out of its way to try to prevent it being held

By Huang Tai-lin  /  STAFF REPORTER

"Although Chen had changed the wording of his referendum question, it is still a concern to the international community whether it would be a step toward changing the nation's status quo," Su said.

Meanwhile, KMT Chairman Lien Chan (連戰), at a campaign event in Kaohsiung yesterday, slammed Chen's call for a referendum and said it "did not adhere to the qualifications and spirit of the Referendum Law but serves only as a tool for his own personal and the DPP's presidential campaign electioneering.

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