Youth call for constitution based on ‘reality’NEED TO BE HEARD: Coalition organizer Lin Chun-chieh called for ‘all people of different generations to stand up and speak your vision of the country’By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterA coalition of youth groups yesterday urged lawmakers to draft a new constitution that would better reflect the separate governance of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The coalition, called the Taiwan New Constitution Youth Front, said that it wants a constitution that guarantees more rights, reflects the nation’s current political reality and contains the “voices of the youth.”The coalition’s call came after the Legislative Yuan on Tuesday formally established an ad hoc Constitutional Amendment Committee, following the approval of a list of 39 committee members from across party lines. Members of a youth coalition called the Taiwan New Constitution Youth Front participate in a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Under “such difficult circumstances,” it might be “more appropriate” for the nation to draw up a new constitution, Feng said. The Constitution has been revised seven times — mostly recently in 2005, he added.

Source: Taipei Times October 08, 2020 15:56 UTC