Premier Yu Shyi-kun said yesterday he looks forward to revising the election law to allow adult students to run for public office.
Addressing a graduation ceremony at his alma mater, Yu said the ban on eligible students standing for election is a "bad law" which has to be amended.
"It is unreasonable to prohibit adult students from running for public office," Yu said. "We should push for the removal of this ban as soon as possible."
That law had also barred students from helping political candidates during campaigns, Yu said. He had to leave Chung Hsing University in 1980 because he wanted to help an candidate in a legislative election in his hometown of Ilan, he added.
The ban on student campaign assistance has been dropped.
"At that time," Yu recalled, "school authorities asked me to leave voluntarily. If I didn't, they would expel me."
After he had left Chung Hsing, Yu worked for a while and was elected to the Taiwan Provincial Assembly in 1981. While a provincial assemblyman, he enrolled at Tunghai University (
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