They do not, as the failure of a recall referendum, promoted by the opposition, decisively demonstrated on Sunday.

The president's foes say they have collected enough signatures to set off a recall referendum, which could take place in April.

He said if the signatures were legitimate, then "fine, we will go to the recall referendum - but not in any other way."

He / she can be subjected to a recall referendum.

The other was to hold a recall referendum in August, asking whether the president should be removed from office.

The opposition, long divided, has found common purpose in an attempt to remove the president through the recall referendum.

It will be the first vote in the legislature on a recall referendum in Taiwan's history.

The recall referendum is provided for in two articles of the 1999 Constitution:

The government has instead proposed a recall referendum for later this year.

Nobody obliged the government to include the recall referendum in that Constitution, but it was included.