Ouyang Canyue, a representative of Nantou citizens who was re-elected, was sentenced to an invalid civil election and sentenced to 2 years in prison for the election bribery case. However, he "resigned before taking office".

(Picture taken from Ouyang Canyue Facebook)

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[Reporter Xie Jieyu/Nantou Report] Ouyang Canyue, a citizen representative of the Kuomintang Nantou City, was re-elected for the second time but was involved in a bribery case. He was sentenced to invalid civil election in the first instance, and was sentenced to 2 years in criminal cases for bribery, but he could appeal, but he was sentenced on January 3 During the inauguration ceremony, the strange trick of "resigning before taking office" was used for the first time, which stunned and confused the relevant local units. Before leaving work on the day of making up work during the Qingming holiday, the answer of "can be made up" was clearly given, which not only made the Nantou election staff no longer confused, but also felt a sense of relief!

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In the reply to the official document of the Nantou County Election Committee, the Ministry of the Interior clearly pointed out two reasons why Ouyang Canyue's vacancy "can be replaced". First, Article 2, Paragraph 1, Article 3, Paragraph 2, and Article 8 As stipulated in the preceding paragraph, local representatives of public opinion shall take an oath in accordance with this Act, and those who fail to take the oath in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be deemed not to have taken office; those who fail to take the oath on the stipulated date for any reason shall take the oath on another date, and those who have not yet taken the oath in accordance with the regulations , as a vacancy, the same is true for representatives of Nantou citizens, and they are also regulated and bound by this oath regulation.

Secondly, in the section on the handling of vacancies, it is stipulated in Article 74, Item 2 of the Law on the Election and Recall of Public Officials that the "elected person" of the local public opinion representative is determined to be invalid by the court because of the circumstances of Article 120, Item 1, Item 3, or When the candidate has been deprived of public rights but has not yet been restored, the vacancy will be filled by the loser in the order of the number of votes obtained, and the provisions of re-election or by-election for the vacancy will not apply, but the number of votes of the candidate must not be lower than that of the election originally announced by the Election Committee The elector with the lowest number of votes in the district receives one-half of the votes.

Therefore, according to the above-mentioned regulations, the supplementary provisions apply to the elected local representatives of public opinion who "are determined to be invalid by the court's judgment due to bribery", or are involved in the situation where "the deprivation of public rights has been declared deprived of power after the judgment of the criminal case has been confirmed".

Ouyang Canyue, the elected representative of the 12th session of the Nantou Citizens' Representative Association in Nantou County, did not take the oath of office. Due to the circumstances of Article 120, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3 of the Public Official Election and Recall Law, the court ruled that the election was invalid. The amount should be supplemented according to the above regulations.