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Date: 2018/09/04
By: International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT)
A petition calling for a referendum on whether the national team should compete in the
Photo Credit: 進擊的台灣隊-Team Taiwan進擊的台灣隊-Team
2020 Tokyo Olympics under the name “Taiwan” instead of “Chinese Taipei” has been submitted to the Central Election Commission.
Organizers of the petition said Monday that they managed to obtain 526,688 signatures in support of the ballot, substantially more than the minimum requirement of 281,745 signatures, or some 1.5 percent of the national electorate that voted in the last presidential election.
Under revisions to Taiwan’s Referendum Law that came into force in January this year, the petition moves the referendum process to the second stage
According to the Team Taiwan group that organized the drive, if the election commission approves the proposal, the referendum will be held alongside the Nov. 24 local elections.
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