Authorities have slowly progressed in the legislation of same -sex marriage, which has led to dissatisfaction rising, and it may arouse the resistance of young voters in the November local government elections.
Taiwanese activists plan to hold a series of large -scale protest rally in the next few weeks.Worried that the government would abandon the legalization plan of the same -sex marriage, and the emotions against President Tsai Ing -wen became stronger and stronger.
The Supreme Court of Taiwan ruled that the same -sex marriage was prohibited from unconstitutional in May last year, allowing Taiwan's young citizen groups to be rejoicing. Compared with the time, the emotions in the circle of activists have changed significantly.
The above -mentioned ruling was the first government in Asia that allowed same -sex marriage to pave the way in Asia, and re -ignited the people's optimistic emotions for the Cai Yingwen government.
However, after more than a year, the authorities were considered to have a slow progress in the legislative legislation of marriage, which led to increasing dissatisfaction. It may stimulate the resistance of young voters in the local government election, and the support of young people's support to Cai YingwenThe Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) its leadership is essential.
Young people felt deceived. The 33 -year -old non -governmental organization (NGO) staff and political activist Yi Pan said that we thought she would do more.
According to a survey by Taiwan Brain Trust, among Taiwanese 20 to 29, the proportion of people who are dissatisfied with Cai Yingwen's political achievements rose from 35.3%at the end of 2017 to 49.2%in July this year.
The organizer plans to attract more than 100,000 homosexual rights supporters to participate in a large -scale protests held in Taipei in November. They are also preparing to use Pride Parade, which is expected to attract 80,000 people on October 27th (Pride Parade,That is, the comrade parade mdash; MDASH; translator's note) and the rally of other cities to fight for support.
We are trying to change the social atmosphere, Jennifer Lu, one of the protest leaders, one of the protest leaders and the general convener of Taiwan's Marriage Equality Coalition TAIWAN.I believe that more people will participate, because they support this issue, and hopes to see Taiwan the first in Asia (the area that accepts same -sex marriage).
After the previous Kuomintang government's dissatisfaction due to the implementation of pro -mainland policies, the support rate plummeted, Tsai Ing -wen and the DPP came to power in May 2016.Since then, the Tsai Ing -wen government has been difficult to advance in terms of difficult pensions and labor reform, and avoids conflict with Beijing MDash; MDash; Beijing claims that Taiwan is part of China.
However, what is expected to play a key role in the November election is the performance of the DPP in the internal affairs rather than the field of foreign policy.For some voters, the government's fading treatment of marriage equality is a cowardly manifestation, and it is a conservative position that leads to a boring position that leads to the steps down of the last government.
Tsai Ing -wen and the DPP used many words that sound like progressive thoughts before the 2016 election, including clearly expressed her support for her support for marriage equality.Fahey said that many people were disappointed with her because she was very moderate, very cautious, and very characteristic of technical officials.
One of the seemingly pragmatic actions such as Tsai Ing -wen is to handle the issue of marriage equality to the Taiwan Constitution Court, rather than using personal political capital to promote legislation.
However, after the judge's judgment of prohibiting the law of same -sex marriage is unconstitutional and allowed the parliament to revise the law within two years, the government has rarely taken any measures to establish a legal framework for allowing homosexual partners to marry.At the same time, opponents are promoting restrictions on the revision of the law and mobilizing the relevant referendum while launching local elections.
The students who have attracted 500,000 people to the streets of Taipei in 2014, the student who occupied the parliament movement in 2014, protested one of the leaders, Lin Feifan, said that the issue of marriage equality and other reforms of MDASH; mdash;Survey MDASH; MDASH; slow progress makes many young people dissatisfied.