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Taiwanese voters have rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers from the opposition Nationalist Party in a recall election
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TaiwanPlus on MSNKMT Retains All 24 Seats in Legislative Recall VoteA vote to determine the fate of 24 opposition lawmakers is over. The Kuomintang has successfully defended all of its seats in Taiwan's chamber, but the outcome is presenting big questions for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
As I traveled around Taiwan last week, I photographed many signs for local KMT politicians that did not display the party logo. Clearly the KMT felt nervous. More interesting than the sordid spectacle of the allegedly conservative party creating more government debt to buy votes was the elimination of the Taipower subsidy.