Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Secretary-General Lin Fong-cheng (
In a news conference held at the KMT's headquarters yesterday, Lin said that lawyers working for the KMT-People First Party (PFP) alliance have found many "doubtful points" in voter registration rolls and said that the number of ballots has increased "abnormally" in the vote recount, leading the lawyers to believe that there must have been fraud in the election.
"If we do find cases of fraud during the recount, our lawyers will file a criminal suit against the people responsible for the fraudulent actions," Lin said.
"We have also urged prosecutors to investigate such fraud vigorously," Lin said.
Lin said that, judging from preliminary results of the recount, he was confident that the KMT-PFP alliance had an excellent chance of winning the suit it has filed with the Taiwan High Court asking that the presidential election be declared void.
"If we win the lawsuit, it is very likely that the presidential election will be held again. At that time, KMT Chairman Lien Chan (
Maintaining that "the election has not yet ended," Lin said that Lien will travel this weekend to Tainan and Kaohsiung to thank and encourage the lawyers and party members who have been working on the recount.
This will mark the first time since the election that Lien will have left Taipei to meet with rank-and-file party members working in other cities and counties.
Meanwhile, PFP Chairman James Soong yesterday confirmed that he would not attend President Chen Shui-bian's (
"I would be crazy if I attended Chen's inauguration under such circumstances," Soong said.
Soong also said that the KMT-PFP alliance would call on its supporters to renew their protests on Ketagalan Boulevard (
Chang Hsien-yao (
"If the DPP continues its maneuvering to obstruct our rally at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, we will have no choice but to go back to Ketagalan Boulevard," Chang said.
The management office of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall said in a press release yesterday that rally permits for the space must be obtained a month ahead of time and that the proposed pan-blue rally does not fit in with the sorts of activities that the facility usually hosts.
KMT Vice Chairman and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said yesterday that he was not concerned about possible protests because he expected city police to do what the law requires them to do.
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:
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