Lawyers representing defeated presidential candidate Lien Chan (
The suit was filed against the Central Election Commission (CEC) and all local election commissions across the nation's 21 cities and counties, said Huang Kuo-chung (
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
Huang, speaking at KMT headquarters yesterday, said the pan-blue camp is asking the Taiwan High Court to declare the election illegal and invalid.
The lawsuit, which follows a suit filed last Monday requesting a recount and the suspension the elected status of President Chen Shui-bian (
Lee Fu-tien (
"The election should be considered invalid because the CEC had illegally held the presidential election alongside the referendum," Lee said.
According to Lee, holding a referendum on sovereignty issues alongside major national elections is against the Referendum Law.
"Second, the suit was filed against the CEC for failing to postpone the election in view of the mysterious election-eve gunshot incident," Lee said, claiming that the commission failed to exercise its authority independently and fairly in the election.
A gunshot grazed Chen's stomach and hit Lu in the knee on March 19 when the two were campaigning in Tainan.
Calling the incident mysterious, the KMT-PFP alliance claims the incident unfairly swayed the election as it led to sympathy votes for Chen.
Explaining their third reason for filing the suit, Lien's lawyers claimed that "there was serious fraud in the process of the election."
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