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Taipei Times
Date: Sep 27, 2017
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Premier William Lai (賴清德) yesterday promised to realize marriage equality in
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators hold placards on the floor of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday as they try to block Premier William Lai from making his first report to the legislature. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
accordance with the Council of Grand Justices Constitutional Interpretation No. 748, a goal absent from the 72 priority bills the Executive Yuan put forward last week.
“The Executive Yuan has followed the Council of Grand Justices’ ruling to seek the broadest consensus in an effort to put forward a concrete and workable marriage equality bill,” Lai said in his first administrative report to the legislature.
The drive to legalize same-sex marriage was listed under the government’s goal to build a “just society,” one of its five major administrative goals. [FULL STORY]
