KMT to use recall success to drive pork referendum
By Lin Liang-sheng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is hoping to use the momentum from its successful recall of a Taoyuan city councilor to drive its referendum on the importation of pork containing ractopamine, while eyeing its next recall target, a party official said on Sunday.
Taoyuan City Councilor Wang Hao-yu (王浩宇) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was recalled on Saturday in a vote with a turnout rate of 28 percent in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢).
Although the victory boosted morale among the pan-blue camp, it is likely not replicable elsewhere, the KMT official said.
Kaohsiung city councilor recall vote authorized
12/18/2020 09:56 PM
Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie. CNA file photo
Kaohsiung, Dec. 18 (CNA) A motion to recall independent Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie (黃捷) has been approved, with the vote to be held on Feb. 6, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced Friday.
The motion was proposed by an organization of members of the public on the grounds that the politician has shown no interest in Kaohsiung affairs and is therefore unfit to represent the people in the southern city, according to the organization s spokesperson Hsu Shang-hsien (徐尚賢).
However, some others would argue that the motion is a form of retaliation by supporters of former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), as Huang is known to be a fierce critic of Han.