Reported 12 months ago
The Kuomintang (KMT) Legislative Yuan caucus has proposed an amendment to the Public Official Election and Recall Law, aiming to increase recall thresholds. The Ministry of the Interior (MOI) will convene a public hearing to review the current situation, with the possibility of adding a requirement that the number of recall approval votes must exceed the number of votes the official received during the election to raise the threshold for approval. The MOI emphasized the need to carefully consider the level of social consensus. The proposed amendment also includes a provision that officials who have served for less than a year cannot be subject to recall proposals or petitions. The current law sets thresholds at 1% for proposing a recall and 10% for petition signatures, with a recall passing if the approval votes exceed 25% of the original electorate number.
Source: YAHOO