KMT to hand referendum signatures to CEC todayBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterThe Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) today plans to submit to the Central Election Commission (CEC) signatures it has collected backing its petitions to hold referendums on imported pork containing racotpamine residue and when referendums should take place, the party said yesterday. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang, second right, and members of the KMT Women’s Department prepare bromelain, an enzyme extract derived from pineapples, to mark International Women’s Day and promote domestic pineapples in Taipei yesterday. The Referendum Act (公民投票法) stipulates that referendums from this year are to be held once every two years on the fourth Saturday of August. The two petitions have each garnered more than 700,000 signatures, Chiang announced in Taipei at an event organized by the KMT Women’s Department to mark International Women’s Day. Chiang and Lin would take the signatures from the KMT’s headquarters in Taipei and deliver them to the commission’s offices by car this morning, the KMT said.

Source: Taipei Times March 08, 2021 16:07 UTC