The Formosa Alliance has been formally established, calls for citizens to demand referendum in April 2019 amending the constitution
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/07
By: Duncan DeAeth,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Formosa Alliance (喜樂島聯盟), an international coalition of
(Image from the Formosa Alliance Facebook page)
overseas Taiwanese organizations, called on Taiwanese citizens to demand a referendum on a formal declaration of independence on April 6.
In a full page advertisement printed in the Liberty Times, the names of 1,350 leaders of overseas Taiwanese organizations across the world were included in a joint statement of the alliance calling for the referendum and for Taiwan’s inclusion as a full member of the United Nations.
The Formosa Alliance is a group whose creation was announced on Feb. 28 by Kuo Pei-hung, the chairman of Formosa TV (郭倍宏). When the declaration in February was made, the group already had support of 150 leaders from across various sectors and industries in Taiwan. [FULL STORY]
