Demonstrators against a trade accord with China in Taiwan’s capital plan to end their weekslong occupation of the legislature by Thursday evening, the protest leaders said Monday.
Their decision came after Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng on Sunday promised not to review the services trade pact until an oversight bill for cross-strait agreements is enacted, and the demonstrators submitted their version of the draft oversight bill for a legislative review, said Chen Wei-ting, one of the protest leaders.
A group of students had seized the legislature’s main assembly hall and barricaded themselves inside since the unilateral passage of a services trade pact by the ruling Nationalist Party, or the Kuomintang, during a first reading without bipartisan discussion on March 17. The student-led “sunflower movement” drew more supporters over the weeks, and grew into a massive sit-in in downtown Taipei on March 30.
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Aries Poon, Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1hUhiIx
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