Keelung mayor recall hits thresholdSTRUGGLE FOR KEELUNG: The KMT would organize a task force in the coming days to deal with the recall challenge, party Secretary-General Justin Huang saidBy Weng Yu-huang And Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerA campaign to recall Keelung Mayor George Hsieh (謝國樑) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has garnered 36,000 signatures, passing the signature threshold required to initiate a recall vote, campaign spokeswoman Lee Yen-jung (李晏蓉) said yesterday. To make room for clerical errors, organizers aim to obtain 40,000 signatures before submitting the petition on Friday next week to the Keelung City Election Commission, she said. Keelung Mayor George Hsieh, second left, poses with event guests at the Nuannuan Waterfront Park festival in Keelung yesterday. The Public Officials Election and Recall Act (公職人員選舉罷免法) stipulates that a recall election process for the mayor of an administrative region can be initiated if at least 10 percent of the jurisdiction’s voters signed a petition for it. The Keelung City Government estimated that if the petition is valid, a recall election would be held between September and December.
