  We show that in the SU(2)XU(1) spin-charge gauge approach we developed
earlier one can attribute consistently an exclusion statistics with parameter
1/2 to the spinless charge carriers of the t-J model in two dimensions(2D), as
it occurs in one dimension (1D). Like the 1D case, the no-double occupation
constraint is at the origin of this fractional exclusion statistics. With this
statistics we recover a "large" Fermi volume of holes at high dopings, close to
that of the tight binding approximation. Furthermore, the composite nature of
the hole, made of charge and spin carriers only weakly bounded, can provide a
natural explanation of many unusual experimental features of the hole-doped
cuprates.
