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Protest in Taiwan against slanted referendum question

Nuclear referendum question protested, Taipei Tmes By Lee I-chia  /  Staff Reporter, 19 Apr 13, Members of the Green Citizens’ Action Alliance demand that the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao District, New Taipei City be discontinued without a referendum, outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday.

 More than 200 people protested in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday morning against the question proposed by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators for a referendum to decide the fate of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮).

Chanting “pro-nuclear legislators are distorting the referendum, conforming to the political party and acting against the public will” and “holding a bird-cage referendum is fake democracy,” the protesters tied yellow ribbons that read “Terminate the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant and reject dangerous nuclear power” on the fence of the Legislative Yuan…… “The referendum question should be phrased to reflect the stance of those who posed it, meaning that since the KMT and the Cabinet are in support of the construction, the question should be ‘do you agree to continue the nuclear plant construction project?’” Green Citizen Action Alliance deputy secretary-general Hung Shen-han (洪申翰) said….. Among the protesters were film directors Wang Shau-di (王小棣), Cheng Yu-chieh (鄭有傑) and Ko I-Chen (柯一正).

Wang said she did not trust the government because it did badly on basic issues and that “the government did not even do a good job ensuring the basic safety of the nuclear power plants and spent nuclear fuel, nor did it answered to the public on these basic issues.”

“The government never communicated with the public and has no direction for the future,” she added.

Handing out papers with pro-nuclear legislators’ office phone numbers on them and urging the public to call them to voice their anger, the protesters urged the legislators not to obey the political party’s orders, but to listen to the public. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/04/20/2003560199

April 20, 2013 - Posted by | politics, Taiwan

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