TT: Saturday’s DPP rally brought out tens of thousands of protesters against Ma’s China policies and against an ECFA. Do you expect this level of opposition to continue? How about the TSU, what is your party’s next step in opposing an ECFA?
Huang: Opposition from the Taiwanese society against an ECFA will continue. Recently, we have seen a great deal of public participation and debate on the issue of an ECFA. While the majority of the public originally supported an ECFA, most people now oppose it. As more and more people continue to talk about it, this will become the trend.
When the government killed our ECFA proposal ... it wanted to buy time before it signed the agreement. We have appealed the decision through the courts and launched an investigation into the rejection through the Control Yuan. To be honest, all these processes will take time and the government still has a certain amount of control over these proceedings.
In the meantime, we will continue to launch new ECFA referendum proposals. The government rejected the aspirations of the 110,000 people who signed our petition the last time around, but we will not give up. And I think that this time around the public is watching. This government will one day pay a price for its political maneuvering.
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