[The Epoch Times, Tachwedd 26, 2022](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Wu Minzhou, Taipei, Taiwan) Ultimately, Taiwan’s constitutional history of the first “18-year-old citizenship” constitutional reform review failed to break through. The 18-year-old citizenship promotion alliance held a press conference on the evening of the 26. The referendum on the amendment of the 18-year-old citizenship constitution failed and could not reach the threshold of 9,619,697 consent votes, but the consent votes are still more than the votes of disapproval; Push a referendum and keep working hard.
Almost 9.62 million consent votes are needed to successfully pass the referendum procedure on the constitutional amendment bill. However, at 10:00 pm, 17,649 polling stations had announced 17,599 votes, with more than 5.6 million yes votes and around 5 million no votes.
On the evening of the 26th, groups such as the 18-Year-Old Citizenship Promotion League and the Taiwan Youth Rights and Welfare Promotion League held a “vote counting party” at the Minzhu Avenue Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, announcing that they could not reach the threshold for consent votes.
Lin Yueqin, the 18-year-old convener of the Civil Rights Promotion League, said that this is not a happy result. She encourages young friends to continue working hard. The results of the vote will affect him, and the referendum may next take another 4 years to get a chance, but hopefully everyone will continue to persevere.
Ye Dahua, the founder of the Promotion Alliance, said that constitutional amendments are a manifestation of public opinion polls on a large scale. This is the first referendum on constitutional amendments, with such a high threshold, but there are still more votes in favor than against. This alone is very important progress, so let’s not get discouraged, and we won’t give up.
Zhang Yumeng, chairman of the China Youth League, said that more than half of Taiwanese citizens support young people to support and participate in national public affairs This is a very high consensus, and it is also the result of unceasing efforts in the past 20 years .This is something worthy of confidence. , is something to be proud of, and a social movement worthy of being included in textbooks.
However, he also emphasized that there is a lot of false information circulating on the Internet this time, and the standard operating procedures of the local elections committees are not complete when collecting referendum votes. These are worthy of improvement and subsequent review by local. election committees and election committees.
Editor in charge: Wang Yue
