Pro-, Anti-Nuclear Groups Spar over Referendums|車諾比核災33週年 擁核vs.反核發新連署

This year is the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on Apr. 25 to 26, 1986. Pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear power groups have been extremely active as of late, hoping to initiate a new series of referendums on the nuclear power issue to take place with next year's presidential election. However, some environmental groups say pro-nuclear groups are violating the Referendum Act by collecting signatures before the second review phase is completed.


Earlier this year, pro-nuclear power groups launched a bipartite referendum on "go green with nuclear," and began urging the public to get the forms they would need to authorize others to sign for them. Environmental groups were not happy, and filed a complaint with the Central Election Commission.

Is it a catchphrase for a referendum, or is it concrete and specific text in a referendum? Signers need to sign personally.

According to environmental groups, the CEC is still assessing a referendum on using nuclear power to reduce coal usage and has not entered the second review phase. However, pro-nuclear power groups are already recruiting signers, and even calling on people to authorize others to sign on their behalf. They claimed this violates Article 12 of the Referendum Act, which said signers must sign or chop in person.

The section on appointments in Chapter 10 of the Civil Code gives us the right to personally sign a letter of appointment authorizing an agent. If Central Election Commission officials and committee members pass a resolution saying these letter of appointments are illegal and they do not recognize them because anti-nuclear groups held a press conference today, then we have a fight.

Huang Shih-hsiu, the initiator of the Go Green with Nuclear movement, held up a petition as he emphasized that letters of appointment are legal under the Civil Code. In response, the CEC said the format of the register of signers must comply with CEC specifications, and signers have to sign in person. In other news, Apr. 26 was the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Taiwan Environmental Protection Union chairperson Shih Shin-min, Liao Pin-liang, and others brandished photos of the disaster as they urged everyone not to forget it.

Shih also had records of observations from a personal visit to Chernobyl in 1996. The TEPU delegation called on Vice Premier Chen Chi-mai, who also participated in the visit and urged him not to forget what he saw. They also called on the government to step up nuclear safety measures.



擁核團體今年發起以核養綠公投二部曲公投，在網站上開始號召民眾領取「空白連署書」，要民眾「授權他人代理委任」。此舉引發環保團體不滿，向中選會提出檢舉函。

環境法律人協會理事長 張譽尹表示：「我今天到底是公投一句口號，還是公投一條具體而特定的主文，連署人必須要親自連署。」

環保團體指出，「以核減煤」一案，中選會仍在審查，尚未進入第二階段，就號召連署，甚至要民眾「授權代理聯署」，違反公投法12條「聯署人應親自簽名蓋章」。

以核養綠領銜人 黃士修表示：「透過民法第十章的委任章節，我們就可以親簽一分委任書，授權給代理人，如果中選會官員委員們，因為反核團體今天記者會，做出決議說這分委任書違法，他們不承認，這件事情，我們就有得爭了！」

黃士修高舉連署書強調，依據民法委任書具有合法效力。但中選會強調，連署名冊須依照中選會格式填寫，連署人親自簽章。

另一方面，26日也是車諾比核災33週年，台灣環保聯盟會長施信民與廖彬良等人，帶著核災照片，呼口號要大家勿忘核災。

帶著1996年親赴車諾比的考察紀錄，施信民等人進入行政院拜會副院長陳其邁，希望陳其邁勿忘當年一起考察經驗，呼籲政府加強核安管制。