An alliance formed by 40-plus private social groups to supervise the Kaohsiung City government and council operations yesterday urged city councilors who have confessed to accepting bribes in the speaker election to resign immediately.
Cheng Cheng-yu (鄭正煜), a spokesman for the new supervisory alliance said the vote-buying scandal surrounding the Kaohsiung City Council speaker election has drawn wide public attention and concern.
"As it usually takes a long time for courts to mete out punishment on bribe-taking councilors, we hope to push for their early resignation through political force," Cheng said.
It is the alliance's hope that the chairmen of the three major political parties ask their bribe-taking councilors to resign immediately.
"If those councilors are unwilling to resign on their own, the three parties should launch campaigns to recall them," Cheng said.
Under the terms of the current Election and Recall Law, elected representatives are not to be deprived of their official duties until after a guilty verdict has been given in a final trial.
Cheng said the alliance will press for an amendment to the law to require elected deputies to resign if they are found guilty of vote-buying in the first trial.
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