Nineteen legislator recall cases passed an initial review and will enter the second-stage petition, while the nine cases that did not reach the threshold in this initial review will have another opportunity for supplementary submissions, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced today.
The CEC said it has received 64 recall proposals, including 54 cases for lawmakers, one for a city or county mayor and another nine for city or county councilors.
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The 19 cases that passed the threshold were all against Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators, and the nine cases that did not reach the threshold were against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, people familiar with the matter said.
The 19 KMT lawmakers now facing the second stage of the recall process include KMT caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁), KMT caucus deputy secretary-general Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) and legislators Yeh Yuan-chih (葉元之), Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) and Ma Wen-chun (馬文君), sources said.
Suspended Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao (高虹安) is also said to be among those recall cases that passed the threshold.
The nine DPP lawmakers whose recall proposals failed to meet the first-stage threshold are Wu Pei-yi (吳沛憶), Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧), Chang Hung-lu (張宏陸), Wu Chi-ming (吳琪銘), Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌), Ho Hsin-chun (何欣純), Chen Kuan-ting (陳冠廷), Saidhai Tahovecahe (伍麗華) and Chen Ying (陳瑩), sources said.
By law, recall proposals must be reviewed by the Central Election Commission within 25 days, meaning that cases submitted on Feb. 3 must be reviewed by tomorrow.
If a proposal meets the threshold requirements, the campaign’s leading proponent collects the petition form from the commission within 10 days of receiving notice, the CEC said.
The recall process has three major stages, the CEC website said. The first stage requires signatures from one percent of total voters in the officials’ electoral district, the second is a petition that must be signed by at least 10 percent of total voters within 60 days and the third is a simple majority vote in which total turnout must be at least 25 percent of total voters in the district.
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