Hsieh does damage control

Hsieh shot down the idea of having any independence referendum as part of his plan to have a chance of getting elected.

His rationale was that Taiwan, being a soverign independent country, would only need a referendum on unification issues and never on independence.

Frankie also said Yu was not actually talking about an independence referendum but just having the president use his power to hasten holding the UN bid under the name Taiwan referendum. That's clearly not what Yu was saying.