The Kuomintang plans to launch three major referendums, and the DPP He Xinchun criticizes populist manipulation

The Kuomintang will propose whipping and anti-fraud and nuclear energy referendums on the agenda at the Legislative Yuan meeting on July 3, together with the already completed anti-abolition referendum, as the three main referendums this year. Regarding this, He Xinchun, a candidate for mayor of the Democratic Progressive Party, said that public opinion will make its own decision, but criticized the Kuomintang and the People's Party for using more populist methods to increase their turnout and support for the year-end election.

He Xinchun, a mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, went to Fengyuan today to participate in the "Rice Field Game Festival for Agriculturalists" organized by the Fengyuan Farmers' Association. She said that public opinion will make its own decision regarding the Kuomintang's push to oppose the three major referendums on abolition of death penalty, caning, and nuclear energy.

However, He Xinchun criticized that the referendums proposed by the Kuomintang seemed to be an attempt to increase the turnout and support for the year-end elections through a more populist approach, in order to save the current sluggish momentum of the Kuomintang and the People's Party in opposition.

He Xinchun emphasized that what public opinion wants is to see that both the government and the opposition should work together to promote Taiwan's security, people's livelihood, industry and economy, and promote policies that benefit the country and the people, rather than trying to save the Blue and White opposition party's own momentum through populist manipulation of the referendum.

She said that what the people want is the security of the country, the future of people's livelihood, industrial economy, and the cooperation between the government and the opposition. It is definitely not populist, and using the referendum plan to save one's own momentum.