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• Two more recalls against lawmakers from DPP rejected

  • By Lee Wen-hsin, Lin Cheng-hung and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
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  Recall petitions targeting Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Rosalia Wu (吳思瑤) and Wu Pei-yi (吳沛憶) were rejected yesterday, lifting the number of failed attempts in a mass recall by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to eight.

  The campaign against Rosalia Wu collected 27,290 signatures and delivered them to the Central Election Commission’s (CEC) Taipei office at about 1pm, stand-in campaign organizer Chan Chia-wen (詹嘉文) said.

  While the signature count exceeded the requirement, the bid was ultimately rejected by the CEC, as the initiator of the campaign was not present to tender the signatures, Chan said.

  

  Chan Chia-wen, second right, the stand-in campaign organizer for a recall campaign targeting Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Rosalia Wu, speaks to reporters in Taipei yesterday.

  Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

  Chang Ke-chin (張克晉), who initiated the recall bid, on April 30 announced that he was backing out of the campaign. Chan waited outside the CEC office until 5:30pm, hoping that Chang would change his mind, but to no avail.

  The campaign would explore and exhaust all alternatives, including petitions or launching an administrative lawsuit, to deliver the motion, Chan said.

  Meanwhile, the petition against Wu Pei-yi was delivered to the Taipei office in the afternoon, but was about 3,000 signatures short of the required number, campaign organizer Lee Hsiao-liang (李孝亮) said.

  While it fell short, the campaign demonstrated the anger among residents of Wu Pei-yi’s constituency, which covers Taipei’s Zhongzheng (中正) and Wanhua (萬華) districts, Lee added.

  Investigations had affected the campaign’s efforts to collect signatures, he said.

  Supporters told him that they would vote in a recall election, but would not sign a petition, Lee said.

  Prosecutors nationwide over the past weeks have been investigating alleged signature fraud in recall campaigns, resulting in the detention of several KMT officials.

  Taipei City Council Speaker Tai Hsi-chin (戴錫欽) of the KMT thanked volunteers who stuck with the recall campaigns against DPP lawmakers until the end.

  It was an arduous journey to reach the second phase of the recall campaigns, especially with the investigations, Tai said.

  In addition to the two Wu bids, recall petitions against DPP legislators Asenay Daliyalrep, Saidhai Tahovecahe, Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌), Ho Hsin-chun (何欣純), Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧) and Wu Chi-ming (吳琪銘) have failed.

  Petitions targeting Chang Hung-lu (張宏陸), Lee Kuen-cheng (李坤城), Chen Chun-yu (陳俊宇), Lee Chun-hsien (李俊憲), Wang Ting-yu (王定宇), Hsu Chih-chieh (許智傑) and Huang Jie (黃捷) have deadlines this month.

  Meanwhile, the CEC said it would announce on June 20 the results of reviews of 31 recall petitions against KMT lawmakers to say whether they have met the second-stage signature threshold.

  The Public Officials Election and Recall Act (公職人員選舉罷免法) stipulates that recall campaigns that pass the second stage must be put to a vote 20 to 60 days after substantiation.
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