Taiwan needs new constitution, front saysBy Huang Ching-hsuan and Jason Pan / Staff reportersTaiwan should draft a new constitution that includes rights of self-determination and national sovereignty, as well as protections for the environment, members of the Taiwan Go Go Front said on Wednesday. “It is time for Taiwan to say goodbye to the outdated Constitution, as it is based on old concepts and the political thinking of Sun Yat-sen (孫中山), founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT),” Green Party Taiwan head Lin Chun-chieh (林俊杰) said during a news conference in Taipei, the day before Constitution Day. We need a political movement to draft a new constitution for Taiwan,” he added. The front was formed earlier this month with involvement from a number of political parties, including the Green Party, New Power Party (NPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party and the Taiwan Obasang Political Equality Party (TOPEP). Constitution Day was abolished two decades ago, and we should wave it goodbye, as it was imposed on Taiwanese by an exiled Chinese colonial regime,” Taiwan Statebuilding Party chairman Wang Hsing-huan (王興煥) said.
