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Support Professor TK Tsay's Appealing for Amendments to the Referendum Law [支持蔡丁貴教授]

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dartoolee
October 31, 2008

Starting October 25, 2008, Professor Ting-Kuei Tsay (蔡丁貴教授) of National Taiwan University has been on hunger strike in front of the Legislative Yuan of ROC Regime in Taiwan. He wants to see the Referendum Law of ROC Regime amended soon so that "direct" civil rights can be exercised by the people of Taiwan.

The current Referendum Law, which was enacted by the legislature in 2003, stipulates that the number of signatures required for a referendum to be considered is 0.5 percent of the electorate participating in the latest presidential election — or approximately 16 million individuals — with an additional 5 percent of the population needed for a referendum to be held.

Describing the law as a "bird cage" law (鳥籠公民投票法) with "excessively high thresholds" for putting a referendum proposal on the ballot and passing it, the former DPP administration had proposed cutting the threshold to 0.003 percent and 1.5 percent respectively.

Also, Article 35 of the Referendum Law (公民投票法) stipulates that the 21 members of the Executive Yuans Referendum Review Committee should be chosen on the basis of the proportion of legislative seats held by each political party.

The Council of Grand Justices handed down the ruling on July 11, 2008, which came more than four years after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers first filed a request to seek constitutional interpretation of the law on January 5, 2004, the first day when the law took effect.

The Council of Grand Justices said in the ruling that Article 35 of the law was unconstitutional because it infringed upon the power of the executive branch and violated the principle of the separation of power.

On October 30, 2008, Professor Stone Lin (林建隆教授) of SooChow University came to the hunger-strike sit-in and voiced his opinions on Professor Tsay's appealing for amendments to the Referendum Law.

東吳大學林建隆教授在2008/10/30，呼籲台灣人民站出來支持蔡丁貴教授推動「公民投票法」之修正！外來中國國民黨馬氏集團竟敢蔑視ROC政體憲法賦予台灣人民集會遊行之權利，全面拒絕核准台灣人民依法向台北市警察局申請向中共海協會團體直接抗議嗆聲之民權。這就是外來少數「非台灣人」仍繼續違反「主權在民」之現代民主憲政精神，壓抑並統治多數台灣人民之實證！

References:

1. "Cabinet rescinds DPP amendment to referendum law":
http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct....
2. "Executive Yuan may propose Referendum Review amendment":
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwa...
3. "給我們真正的公民投票法！支持公投法修正":
http://terrylogin.blogspot.com/2008/1...

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