With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” last week, some have asked the question of whether the DPP and KMT will seek to make amends. After all, it now seems clear that the pan-Green camp will not be able to oust the KMT from the legislature...
With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” over the weekend, it is notable to observe that some claims in media discourse have sought to frame the results as a rebuke to the DPP, indicating that the Taiwanese public supports the KMT. Chinese nationalists have gone even further, suggesting that the results mean that the majority of Taiwanese identify as Chinese...
The first round of recall voting in Taiwan took place today. The results, however, mostly indicate a defeat for pro-recall campaigners, in that no KMT legislators were recalled. 24 legislators and one mayor were up for recall today...
Tomorrow is the date of the recalls set to take place in Taiwan. What should be self-apparent is that it was a sense of political crisis that led up to this point. For the recalls, as a self-initiated movement to recall all KMT legislators, to take place involved both domestic and international factors, as well as an interplay between social movement politics and electoral politics....
The aesthetics of the “Great Recall Movement” have, in many ways, reflected the aesthetics of preceding social movements. Nevertheless, one notes that campaign aesthetics have, in many ways, been more disparate than in terms of past movements...
The recalls set to take place later this week are a historically unprecedented event in Taiwan. Recalls have never occurred in Taiwan in such a wide-ranging manner as at present. Some have taken this as a hopeful sign, in that this could lead to the recall of KMT politicians in a manner that allows for a shift in the balance of power in the legislature...
The pan-Blue camp has hit out at US-Taiwan ties, through claims that the US intends to impose a 32% tariff rate on Taiwan. This proves a charged issue ahead of the recall vote set to take place on Saturday, as pan-Blue figures have begun claiming that the eventual tariff rate imposed on Taiwan will be 32%...
The "Great Recall Movement” has successfully organized across the country as part of efforts to recall KMT legislators. Even as it is to be questioned whether the movement will prove successful in recalling enough KMT legislators to change the balance of power in the Taiwanese legislature, that recall organizers were able to self-organize across all of Taiwan should demonstrate to the KMT that it hazards pushback from members of the public through its actions. That the recall movement overcame many obstacles to accomplish this is notable. Among the obstacles reported by recall movement organizers is harassment from KMT-controlled local governments...
