The Appendectomy Project — a recall campaign aimed at removing Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators Alex Tsai (蔡正元), Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇), and Lin Hung-chih (林鴻池) — faces a crucial day tomorrow, when organizers have vowed to collect as many signatories as possible while the nine-in-one local elections are underway.
The project, which has dubbed tomorrow “V-day,” plans to set up stands next to polling stations in the three legislators’ constituencies in a bid to attract voters to sign the petition demanding the three be recalled.
Following the petition against Tsai, which entered its second phase on Nov. 16, the recall efforts for Wu and Lin both entered their second phase on Wednesday.
This followed activists garnering the support of more than 2 percent of eligible voters in the two’s respective constituencies.
By law, 13 percent of eligible voters in a given constituency must sign the petition for a recall campaign to enter its third and final stage: an official recall referendum.
Recall petitions against Tsai, Wu and Lin each require support from 38,939, 37,469 and 27,677 signatories respectively to pass the 13 percent mark.
“Hopefully, Nov. 29 [tomorrow] will not only be a day for elections, but also a historic day for the public to exercise their constitutional rights and recall politicians who have failed the public,” said the project’s spokesperson, known as “Mr. Lin from Taipei” (台北林先生).
The name Appendectomy Project was chosen because in Mandarin Chinese, the term for pan-blue-camp legislators, lan wei (藍委), is pronounced the same as “appendix” (闌尾).
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