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Failure of Taiwanese recall elections leaves defence build-up in gridlock

The failure of Taiwan’s ruling party to unseat opposition members of the legislature in recall elections last weekend may ...

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 ...
Foreign Affairs9h

Taiwan’s Democracy Is in Trouble

LEV NACHMAN is an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University and the author of Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements and Party Formation.

Explainer-Taiwan's recall elections and how the process could play out

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Around one-fifth of Taiwanese lawmakers, all from the main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), face a ...
The Diplomat3d

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 move to recall opposition lawmakers fails

The result is a blow to President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party, which missed an opportunity to reshape the ...

Voters in Taiwan reject bid to oust China-friendly lawmakers in closely watched poll

Taiwanese voters rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers, all from the opposition Nationalist Party, in a ...
GZERO Media on MSN7d

Total Recall: Taiwan attempts a do-over of last year’s elections

This Saturday, Taiwan will try to do something that no democracy has ever done: a mass recall of lawmakers who serve in the ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute6d

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 ...

Voters in Taiwan reject bid to oust China-friendly lawmakers in setback for president

Taiwanese voters have rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers from the opposition Nationalist Party in a ...
Hudson Institute2d

China Insider | China after Communism, Taiwan’s Recall Election, and China’s Growing Protest Movements

In this week’s episode of China Insider, Miles Yu reviews the latest report from Hudson Institute’s China Center, China after ...

Taiwan is paralyzed by political gridlock. A mass recall of ‘pro-China’ lawmakers could break that

A democratic check or an abuse of power? Mass recall vote in Taiwan polarizes island after months of paralysis.