Reported about 1 year ago
The Kuomintang caucus in the Legislative Yuan plans to propose an amendment to the Recall and Removal Election Act next week to raise the recall threshold. This move has been criticized by Democratic Progressive Party legislator Huang Chieh, who believes the Kuomintang is rushing and afraid of facing recalls. Former recalled legislator Chen Po-wei has challenged Kuomintang Chair Eric Chu on the reasonableness of his old election vote count and the recalled vote count. The amendment proposes to increase the recall threshold from 'approval greater than disapproval, and approval votes greater than one-quarter of the total electorate' to 'approval votes exceeding the number of elected votes received by the recalled person'. The debate is ongoing between parties regarding the necessity and fairness of these potential changes.
Source: YAHOO