Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/31
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, July 31 (CNA) Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) called on the public

Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九, center) and former Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺, left)

Tuesday to support two referendum proposals that are seeking to override the government’s policy of scrapping the fourth nuclear power plant and making Taiwan a nuclear-free homeland by 2025.

Ma made the appeal at a press conference and was joined by former Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺), who was serving in Ma’s administration in 2014 when the decision was taken to mothball the fourth nuclear power plant amid public concerns over nuclear safety.

One of the referendum proposals Ma and Jiang are now supporting will ask whether the power plant should be activated for commercial operations. The other referendum proposal is about whether Article 95-1 of the Electricity Act, which will phase out nuclear power plants by 2025, should be abolished.    [FULL  STORY]