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18-year-old civil rights failed to break through the militia to propose a constitutional interpretation | referendum | The Epoch Times

[The Epoch Times, 26 novembre 2022](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Wu Minzhou, Taipei, Taiwan) For the first time in Taiwan’s constitutional history, “Citizenship at 18“The revision of the constitutional amendment failed to break through. The alliance for the promotion of 18-year-old citizenship held a press conference on the evening of the 26th. The referendum on the amendment of the constitution of 18-year-old citizenship failed and did not could reach the threshold of 9,619,697 votes Disagree vote, in the future we will go towards the interpretation of the constitution or push for another referendum, and we will continue to work hard.

Nearly 9.62 million consensus votes are needed to successfully pass the referendum process on the constitutional amendment bill. However, as of 10pm, 17,649 polling stations had issued 17,599 ballots, with more than 5.6 million votes in favor and about 5 million votes against.

Citizenship at 18On the evening of the 26th, groups such as the Promotion Alliance and the Taiwan Youth Rights and Welfare Promotion Alliance held a “vote counting party” at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall’s Minzhu Avenue, announcing that they could not reach the threshold of consent votes.

Lin Yueqin, the 18-year-old covenant of the Alliance to Promote Civil Rights, said this was not a happy outcome. She encourages young friends to keep working hard. The results of the vote will affect it and the next referendum may take another 4 years to have a chance, but I hope everyone will continue to persevere.

Ye Dahua, the founder of the promotion coalition, said that the constitutional revision is a demonstration of large-scale public opinion polls, and this is the first constitutional revisionreferendumwith such a high threshold, but still more agree than disagree votes, this alone is a very important progress, so we must not be discouraged, nor will we give up.

Zhang Yumeng, chairman of the Youth League of China, 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 unremitting efforts in the past 20 years This it is something to be trusted, something to be proud of, and a social movement worthy of textbook inclusion.

However, he also pointed out that this time there was a lot of fake news circulating on the Internet and local electoral committeesreferendumWhen voting, the standard operating procedures are not complete enough, and there are even cases where mayoral and referendum votes are collected in different ballots, which deserve subsequent improvement and review by the local election committee and election committee.

Responsible editor: Wang Yue

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