WIDENING THE SCOPE: At the launch of the Formosa Alliance, members said they would pressure the government to allow plebiscites on sovereignty
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 08, 2018
By: Ko Yu-hao and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) yesterday urged Taiwanese to use a proposed
Former president Lee Teng-hui talks to reporters at the launch of the Formosa Alliance in Kaohsiung yesterday. Photo: Chang Chung-yi, Taipei Times
referendum as an expression of Taiwan’s sovereignty at the launch of the Formosa Alliance in Kaohsiung.
The deepest wish of Taiwanese has always been to be in charge of their own nation, Lee said, adding that due to the limitations imposed by the international situation, this wish has remained unfulfilled.
Now is the opportunity for all Taiwanese to abandon their prejudices and push for Taiwan’s participation in the international community under the name “Taiwan,” he said.
Yesterday’s launch was attended by former premiers Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) and Yu Shyi-kun (游錫堃), former presidential advisers Peng Ming-min (彭明敏) and Wu Li-pei (吳澧培), late democracy activist Deng Nan-jung’s (鄭南榕) daughter, Deng Chu-mei (鄭竹梅), as well as 3,000 supporters of the new alliance. [FULL STORY]
