Prosecutors have questioned people involved in Taiwan's mass lawmaker recall campaign, as concerns arise over the validity of petition signatures.
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00:00Authenticity is the name of the game in Taiwan's mass legislator recall movement.
00:10Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party and the opposition Kuomintang
00:15are locked in a tense campaign to remove each other's lawmakers.
00:20Part of that process involves collecting signatures from the public to officially petition the
00:26government to initiate a vote to remove legislators from office.
00:31But it seems authorities have found problems with the validity of some of those signatures.
00:37In the past two days, prosecutors have questioned several people connected to the KMT
00:42over allegedly fraudulent signatures on petitions. Among them are members of the party's youth league.
00:49This comes after allegations that the names of deceased people have showed up on recall
00:55petitions targeting DPP lawmakers, including one against the party's legislative caucus
01:00secretary general Wu Ziyao. Wu has attributed blame to KMT leadership, including party chair Eric Zhu.
01:14One of the people brought in for questioning works for KMT legislator Luo Zixiang's office. Luo,
01:21who is also targeted in the mass-recall campaign, said the investigation was politically motivated.
01:28This saga seems far from over. According to the Central Election Commission, or CEC,
01:36of the 61 recall petitions it received, 41 potentially contain falsified, or the so-called ghost signatures.
01:59It has reported all of them to prosecutors for further probing. When asked about this,
02:05CEC Chair Li Jinyong didn't reveal if those are campaigns against the KMT or the DPP,
02:12but emphasized the commission has treated all recall petitions equally.
02:16The rest, Li said, the CEC will leave up two judicial authorities.
02:32Klein Wang and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.