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Ma defends party's compromise move on voting system

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday defended his party's decision to accept the Central Election Commission's (CEC) voting system.

The KMT said on Saturday it would make a compromise and accept the CEC's proposed arrangement, allowing voters to follow a two-step voting procedure as long as tables and ballot boxes in polling stations are placed in accordance with the one-step voting format.

"We made the compromise because we don't want to create a chaotic situation for the nation. It is our country and we need to think about the overall situation," Ma said yesterday while campaigning for legislative candidates in Kaohsiung County.

"Some parties may not care whether the nation decays, but we can't do that. This is our one and only country," he said.

Ma said yesterday the KMT's move was a reasonable decision.

In response to appeals by party legislators that voters not cast referendum ballots during the election, Ma said the KMT had proposed an anti-corruption referendum and one on the UN bid and that he would cast his referendum ballots in support of the two proposals.

KMT Communication and Cultural Committee head Huang Yu-cheng (黃玉振) said the party did not make the concession because of the Cabinet's decision to replace local election commissioners.

"We don't want to give the Democratic Progressive Party any excuse to halt the elections and blame it on the KMT," Huang said yesterday at KMT headquarters.
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