CORRALLING A HORSE: C.V. Chen said Ma Ying-jeou agreed to serve as the proposer of a referendum aimed at protecting the judiciary and making obstructing it a crime

Taipei Times
Date: Feb 06, 2018
By: Lin Liang-sheng and Sherry Hsiao  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

Former Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) secretary-general C.V. Chen (陳長文) yesterday announced that he and former presidential office deputy secretary-general Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) are going to establish the Anti-Obstruction of Justice Referendum Alliance, with former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) onboard to push for a referendum to protect judicial independence and Taiwan’s rule of law.

In a press release issued through Lo, Chen said Lo would be the alliance’s chief executive, while he would serve as its convener

Ma has also agreed to his invitation to be the leading proposer of an “anti-obstruction of justice” referendum, said Chen, a lawyer who also served as president of the Red Cross Society of the Republic of China.    [FULL  STORY]