Zhong Jiabin pointed out that education level was no longer the prerequisite for running for public office in the past, and of course there is no need for an education column in the election bulletin.
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[Reporter Chen Zhengyu/Taipei Report] The Executive Yuan will pass the revised draft of the "Election and Strike Law" to exclude "black, gold, guns, and drugs" from running for election. DPP legislator Zhong Jiabin and others also proposed a revised version of the law, advocating the deletion of academic qualifications in the election bulletin column, but the Legislative Yuan Program Committee suspended the case.
Zhong Jiabin was interviewed today (20th) and said that there is no education level restriction on the qualifications for various public office elections, so the academic qualifications column is not necessary information. This is a progressive legislation deduced according to the times.
The current Law on the Election and Recall of Public Officials stipulates that the election bulletin shall include the candidate's academic qualifications and require the submission of supporting documents.
According to the "Draft Amendment to Some Provisions of the Law on the Election and Recall of Public Officials" proposed by DPP legislator Zhong Jiabin and 24 people, it shows that democratic politics should adopt a more open attitude, and that a candidate's academic qualifications have nothing to do with whether they can represent the will of the people In fact, the election bulletin should not compel the disclosure of candidates' academic qualifications.
The draft was discussed by the Program Committee of the Legislative Yuan today, and the proposal of the Kuomintang Group was passed to suspend its inclusion in the report of the Legislative Yuan.
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In this regard, Zhong Jiabin was interviewed and said that before the 1980s, various public office elections in Taiwan had different education level requirements according to different levels. Qualifications. With the development of the times, the "election and strike law" no longer uses academic qualifications as the qualifications for candidates for public office, and the significance of the academic qualifications column in the election bulletin as a qualification certificate no longer exists, so there is no need to store academic qualifications column.
Zhong Jiabin said that if voters are concerned about candidates’ various academic experiences, in this amendment proposal, candidates can still put their academic qualifications in relevant columns such as experience or political opinions, because according to the “election strike law”, the experience in the election bulletin and political opinions, election agencies should respect candidates’ self-expression, and candidates must be responsible to voters for the authenticity of the content.
In response to the resolution of the program committee and the outside question that the proposer, Cai Adaptation, himself faced the issue of academic qualifications, Zhong Jiabin responded that the various proposals of the Legislative Yuan were to gain room for discussion. However, according to the deduction of the times, education level as a prerequisite for running for public office in the past no longer exists, and of course there is no need for an education column in the election bulletin.
In addition, Zhong Jiabin said that he supports the "election strike law" to include anti-gangster provisions, and that the criminal records of specific crimes should be disclosed. Even if the period of deprivation of public rights has been lifted, these criminal records may not be found by ordinary people, and voters should be provided to judge whether they support it or not. .