Taipower is building a fourth natural gas receiving station in the Yaowai Mushan sea area, and conservationists have launched a referendum on sea protection.

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[Reporter Yu Zhaofu/Keelung Report] Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang went to the central government and approved Keelung’s four-way referendum proposal at the end of March, but was pointed out by the Central Election Commission that it violated the local referendum autonomy regulations. Come and hold a referendum?

Zhang Yuanxiang, director-general of the Keelung City Election Committee, said that as long as the number of petitions exceeds 12,378 before May 26, the Keelung City Election Committee will actively review the case and conduct a referendum on August 26.

Zhang Yuanxiang pointed out that according to the referendum law, an announcement must be made 90 days in advance, so the sea protection referendum team must complete the joint signature on May 26 and send the document on May 27, but the review will take one month. The joint signature was completed on the 25th, and the time is tight. As long as the documents are submitted before May 27, the Keelung City Government will actively review them and rush to handle the referendum on August 26.

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Xie Guoliang approved the Keelung four-way referendum proposal. Wang Xingzhi, the lead proposer of the Keelung sea protection referendum, said that he officially raised 500 referendum joint signature points and launched the second phase of joint signatures; Book.

Wang Xingzhi said that according to Articles 10 and 11 of the Keelung City Referendum Autonomous Regulations, "soliciting opinions from relevant agencies" and "receiving the format of the list of joint signers" were originally decoupled and parallel procedures, and the gap between them was 30 days It depends on whether the Keelung City Election Committee interprets the decree from an administrative position of "delaying the referendum process and limiting people's rights" or "encouraging people to express their opinions and facilitating the people".

However, the Keelung City Election Committee has not issued the second-stage joint signature letter to Wang Xingzhi. It is understood that once it is issued, it may face the situation of illegal execution of duties, because the Central Election Committee announced that Xie Guoliang approved the sea protection. The referendum is illegal, but if the Keelung City Election Committee violates the order, grassroots civil servants are afraid that they will face the risk of punishment.

Therefore, Xie Guoliang once said during Wang Xingzhi's visit, "There are two factions within the city government who disagree."

In addition, since the referendum joint signature case must confirm the information of the joint signer, is there really someone?

Personnel in the household registration system must check the household registration information. The Ministry of the Interior and the Central Election Committee have successively announced that Xie Guoliang’s approval is illegal. The household registration personnel are also worried, will this violate the law?

Because the central government and the local government are at odds, some grassroots civil servants laugh at themselves. Now it is "elephants quarreling, and the grassland suffers."