The Executive Yuan is set to legalize joint presidential tickets by different parties despite the TSU's proposal to ban those not born in Taiwan from running for the presidency.
"According to the Constitution, any citizen of the Republic of China, who is over the age of 40, is eligible to run for president or vice president, regardless of birthplace," Cabinet Spokesman Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said.
As the nation's highest admin-istrative organ, Lin added, the Cabinet will do its utmost to put President Chen Shui-bian's (
Chen has come out clearly against the TSU's proposal.
The Cabinet is scheduled to review the Ministry of the Interior's draft amendments to the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law (總統副總統選舉罷免法) next week.
Under the draft, candidates of different parties would be allowed to jointly run on a single ticket in a presidential election if each of the parties involved won at least 5 percent of the total votes of the previous presidential or legislative elections.
As present, the law does not specify whether or not candidates of different parties can run on a joint ticket.
The draft would also allow the parties fielding a joint ticket to channel financial resources to fund each other for a presidential campaign. The amendment says that parties on a joint ticket would both be eligible for the NT$30 per vote subsidy that each party taking part in an election gets and they would be free to allocate the sum as they wish.
Next year's presidential election will be held on March 20.
Meanwhile, Premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday requested Cabinet agencies expedite efforts to push the government initiatives in the legislature, especially a major job-creation project.
"Because the DPP does not enjoy a majority in the legislature, there are many bills awaiting approval, including the NT$50 billion job-creation bill," Yu said.
Yu made the remarks during a three-hour closed-door meeting with 20 ministers at his official Taipei residence.
He is scheduled to meet with DPP county commissioners and city mayors today to solicit their support for the job-creation project. He met with 20 others last Saturday.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater