Taipei District Court confirmed yesterday it received an application from China-born former Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) legislator Li Zhenxiu (李貞秀) for a provisional injunction last Friday.
Li was expelled from the TPP on Monday last week and was stripped of her legislator-at-large seat.
She has since criticized TPP Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), TPP Secretary-General Chou Yu-hsiu (周榆修), and TPP Caucus Secretary-General Vicky Chen (陳智菡) on various political TV shows.
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Li on Sunday in a livestream said she filed for a provisional injunction with the court to temporarily retain her party status and her eligibility to serve as a legislator-at-large.
The request for a provisional injunction is intended to suspend the TPP’s procedures for the time being, she said, adding she has not yet received official documents from the party’s Central Review Committee of its decision to expel her and that the TPP still provides a 30-day period for appeal.
She added she has not yet signed her resignation paperwork at the Legislative Yuan. Huang in a radio interview yesterday said he is not at all concerned.
Lawyer Chen Chun-wei (陳君瑋) analyzed purposes behind Li’s latest move, including maintaining public attention and media exposure, forcing the TPP to release key meeting records, preventing Huang from ignoring her and avoiding public perception that she is being self-contradictory.
While Li said she was following precedent of the case of former legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), who was granted a provisional injunction in 2013 after he had his Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) membership revoked, temporarily blocking his expulsion while legal appeals continued, lawyer Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎) said Li’s legal situation is different.
In Wang’s case, he filed for a provisional injunction before the Legislative Yuan had officially received and processed the documents, adding that Li filed for the injunction only after the Legislative Yuan had already received the documents.
The Central Election Commission on Wednesday last week announced that Cheng Kung University professor Hsu Chung-hsin (許忠信) would fill Li’s vacant at-large legislative seat.
Additional reporting by Yang Hsin-hui and CNA
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