YOUTHFUL APPROACH: Johnny Chiang called on the DPP to form a constitutional reform committee, saying that young people should speak up for their own rights
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 28, 2020
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators Chiang Wan-an, fourth left, Johnny Chiang, who is also KMT chairman, fifth right, Lin Yi-hua, third right, and Lin Wei-chou, who is also caucus whip, right, are joined by young people at a news conference in Taipei yesterday calling for amendments to the Constitution to lower the voting age to 18 and the age of candidacy to 20.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
“Today is the most significant day for the reforms that the KMT has pledged to undertake,” KMT Legislator Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) told a news conference in Taipei.
As the party is traditionally seen as being out of touch with young people, the proposed constitutional amendments are a statement to empower youth as they seek more participation in public affairs, said Chiang, who was elected KMT chairman this month.
With the advent of the Internet, young people are now exposed to an abundance of information and have become more insightful than politicians on a range of emerging issues, Chiang said.
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