Nov. 7,2000 --- To: Trent Lott, Denny Hastert

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Dear　Mr. Trent Lott,
　　　Mr. Denny Hastert,

The poll, conducted by the Cabinet-level Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission between Nov. 3-4, found that only 19 percent of those surveyed are in favor of the opposition lawmakers’ plan to move to recall President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu.

Infuriated by the Chen administration’s decision a week earlier to halt construction on the island’s fourth nuclear power plant, the opposition camp decided last Friday to push for a second reading of the amendment of the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law in order to pave the way for the recall.

The opposition lawmakers postponed the motion until Tuesday due to a lack of consensus. The Kuomintang task force on promoting the dismissal of President Chen Shui-bian plans to bring up the “recall vote” motion in the legislature Tuesday.

Earlier last week, the opposition legislators considered launching a no-confidence motion to topple the Cabinet let by Premier Chang Chun-hsiung, calling Chang’s announcement of halting the nuclear power plant project “illegal and invalid” because continuation of the project was an issue passed by the legislature years ago.

RDEC pollsters found that 54 percent of those surveyed said they disagree with the idea of legislators pursuing a “no-confidence” motion and 23 percent said they agree with it.

As the Cabinet had already announced the halting of the controversial nuclear power plant project once and for all, 45 percent of the respondents said the project should now be history, while 34 percent said the government should “heed the law” and continue the project.

On the recent crash of a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 passenger airliner in Taiwan, 74 percent of poll respondents said the government’s reaction and handling of the accident in the aftermath was satisfactory, and only 6 percent said they think the government did not do a good job.

The telephone poll acquired 1,140 valid samples from adults around the island.

In related news, the independent Cheng Society (also named Taipei Society), an influential opinion leader in Taiwan, on Sunday urged the opposition legislators not to call for the recall of President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu.

In a 8,000-word statement Cheng Society urged the opposition parties to “stop the political dog-fight and return the legislature to a normal constitutional process.”

It said the recall motion planned to be put forward by the opposition parties on Tuesday is “coarse and reckless,” and the logic of the recall motion is based almost totally on the interests of strife, it noted.

It noted that the opposition parties’ recent moves regarding a no-confidence motion and a recall motion have already triggered social unrest in Taiwan, adding that if the motions were put into action, it would definitely “doom the country eternally.”

If the opposition parties were so angry with the Executive Yuan’s decision, they could consider unseating the premier and giving the motion a try to find out if it went anywhere, it said.

Reported by Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times ---

In Taiwan; “its legislature is controlled by an opposition party that has no idea how to be an opposition party after 51 years in power, a reign that ended in humiliation when voters threw it out.”

Why US$10 billion in investment has fled the island? There are some reasons on;

WTO’s pressure on both sides,

Anti-corruption is making some “black-gold’s” bastards to run away from

Taiwan Somebody connected with legislators,  

On the other hand, that’s all non-economic factors.

Why Taiwan President Chen, he made pledges that “will please the international community and leave the Beijing leadership without an excuse to punish Taiwan”?

Embattled Philippine President Joseph Estrada, facing threats of impeachment over a gambling pay off scandal, denied on Sunday that there had been pressure from the United States for him to resign.

The opposition KMT and the People First Party are expected to introduced a legislature that could lead to Chen being removed from office.

But in recent polls over the weekend, over 60 percent of voters were opposed to dismissing Chen, which could mean that Chen would not be “voted” out office even if the motion passed through the Legislative Yuan.

President Chen Shui-bian publicly apologized to KMT chairman Lien Chan for embarrassment caused by the timing of the announcement over the nuclear issue.

Chen apologized for the government’s abrupt announcement of suspending construction of the partially built nuclear power plant right after a meeting with KMT chairman Lien-Chan on Oct. 27, the opposition claimed that it has gained majority support from the people. But recent opinion polls have proved that to be wrong.

The situation of President Chen needs your concern.