The “Great Recall” of more than two dozen opposition lawmakers in Taiwan over the weekend greatly disappointed the president and his progressive supporters.
All 24 members of the Kuomintang, or KMT, survived the coordinated challenge of their office on Saturday, smashing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s hopes of taking control in the Legislative Yuan. Hsinchu Mayor Kao Hung-an, also a member of the KMT, survived her Saturday recall as well.
David Sacks, a fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the Washington Examiner that no one imagined the KMT voters would make such a successful rebuke.
“I don’t think that anybody can honestly say that they were expecting this result,” Sacks told the Washington Examiner. “Most observers saw the movement as having
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