‘RIDICULOUS BEHAVIOR’: Wecare Kaohsiung founder Aaron Yin said the filing to halt the recall was like Han Kuo-yu losing a game of mahjong and ‘flipping the table’
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 09, 2020
By: Chang Wen-chuan and Ko Yu-hao / Staff reporters
Lawyer Yeh Ching-yuan, left, and form/er Kaohsiung Information Bureau director-general Anne Wang, center, talk to reporters yesterday outside the Taipei High Administrative Court, where they filed a request to halt a recall vote against Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu.
Photo: CNA
Petitioners on Tuesday passed the second-stage threshold needed for a recall vote after the Kaohsiung City Election Commission finished reviewing more than 400,000 signatures.
The commission confirmed 377,662 signatures to be valid after duplicates and signatures with incomplete information were removed.It was to report the result yesterday to the Central Election Commission, which is expected to hold a meeting to review the case on Friday next week.
A vote must be held 20 to 60 days after a recall case is established. [FULL STORY]
