NOT FOR CHANGING:Sufin Siluko reiterated that the KMT’s stance is, and always has been, that changes to the ROC’s territory are not referendum topic material

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 17, 2016
By: Alison Hsiao / Staff reporter

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has always maintained that territorial change is not an issue that can be put to a referendum, KMT caucus convener Sufin Siluko (廖國棟) said yesterday, a day after some of his KMT colleagues agreed to do just that during a review of proposed amendments to the Referendum Act (公民投票法).

The Internal Administration Committee on Thursday reviewed several proposed amendments to the Referendum Act during what proved to be a contentious meeting.

While consensuses were reached on several proposals, including lowering the voting age, the referendum thresholds and the required vote for passage, as well as abolishing the Referendum Review Commission, two proposals sparked so much debate that they were left out of the amendments forwarded to the general assembly: a proposal that cross-strait political negotiations should be initiated and ratified by referendum and to list territory change as an item that could be put to a referendum.

While Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) committee members opposed the idea of allowing territory change to be listed as a possible referendum topic — a reversal of the DPP’s traditional stance — KMT legislators Huang Chao-shun (黃昭順) and Lai Shyh-bao (賴士葆) agreed to the inclusion.    [FULL  STORY]