Control Yuan chides CEC over power plant petition‘NEGLIGENT’: A referendum proposal to activate the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant combines two policy issues and is problematic, a Control Yuan member saidBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterCentral Election Committee (CEC) officials should be held responsible for wrongful conduct and negligence over a referendum petition calling on the government to activate the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant and use it for commercial energy generation, Control Yuan members said yesterday. The CEC in December last year said that Huang’s petition had reached the legal threshold for a referendum to be held. 4 nuclear power project has been shelved and to restart it would mean to repeal a major government policy decision,” Tien said. “Therefore this referendum question combines two major government policy decisions. According to the Referendum Act (公民投票法), two policy decisions cannot be combined into one referendum question for people to vote on,” she said.

Source: Taipei Times July 27, 2020 15:56 UTC