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Taiwan’s Great Recall: Historic bid to remove 'pro-China' lawmakers fails

A historic vote in Taiwan on Saturday targeting 24 opposition Kuomintang (KMT) legislators accused of being too friendly with ...

Taiwan Opposition Defeats Recall, Keeps Legislative Control

Taiwan’s opposition will keep its legislative majority in a blow to President Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party, ...
Taipei Times2hOpinion

Notes from Central Taiwan: In the wake of the recall

Notes from Central Taiwan is a column written by long-term resident Michael Turton, who provides incisive commentary informed ...

Taiwan’s progressives reckon with utter failure of ‘Great Recall’ against opposition

The "Great Recall" of over two dozen opposition lawmakers in Taiwan was a great disappointment for the president and his ...

Taiwan move to recall opposition lawmakers fails

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan opposition lawmakers survived a major recall election on Saturday, thwarting a bid to oust one-fifth of the island's parliamentarians - a move supporters had ...
Macau Business1dOpinion

OPINION – Taiwan’s election recall fiasco and its internal and cross-strait implications

The recent fiasco of the Democratic Progressive Party-led election recall of the directly elected legislators and a mayor in ...

Taiwan Recall Campaign Fizzles, in a Setback to Its President

An unprecedented vote to remove lawmakers from office could have handed President Lai Ching-te more power by ousting opponents. It didn’t.
The Diplomat5d

Taiwan’s Recall Elections Failed – But That Doesn’t Signal an Embrace of Beijing

The failure of the recalls does not reflect a re-evaluation of cross-strait policy preferences. But it does send a clear ...

Taiwan recall: cross-strait crisis averted for now, but new uncertainty ahead

Vote fails to remove KMT lawmakers, easing tensions with Beijing while raising questions about Taiwan’s defence ambitions and ...
Foreign Affairs2d

Taiwan’s Democracy Is in Trouble

On July 26, Taiwanese citizens went to the polls and voted on whether to recall 24 of their 113 representatives—or 21 percent ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute9d

Taiwan’s Recall Vote and Its Implications

On July 26, only a year and a half after the most recent general election, Taiwanese voters will once again head to the polls ...

Taiwan votes in high-stakes recall election

Taiwanese voters turned out at schools, temples and community centres on Saturday to cast their ballots in a high-stakes ...