A recall vote against Keelung mayor George Hsieh held today resulted in Hsieh staying in office. Around 70,000 were in favor of recalling Hsieh, while 85,000 supported his staying in office, with voter turnout at 49.35%. The Hsieh campaign declared victory around 6 PM...
The KMT has illustrated that it intends to continue to engage in scorched earth tactics against the Lai administration, sending the proposed budget back to the Procedural Committee of the Legislative Yuan. This was accomplished in coordination with the TPP...
Keelung mayor George Hsieh faces a recall vote, which has been scheduled for October 17th. However, the results of the recall vote may ultimately boil down to local political factors...
Appointments to the Constitutional Court are likely to be fought between the pan-Blue camp and DPP in the coming months. Namely, the terms of seven of the fifteen justices are set to end in October...
The Economic Democracy Union, one of the primary coordinating groups of the Bluebird Movement, has sought to call attention to upcoming legislation advanced by the KMT that could prove dangerous to Taiwan’s sovereignty...
Bluebird Movement demonstrations have continued to take place outside of the legislature. Even if demonstrations are not as large as in May and June, in July, this has occurred on several occasions...
The KMT and TPP likely plan to use their newly acquired legislative powers going forward to go after political opponents, with an investigative committee set up to investigate the approval of Mirror TV for broadcast. In particular, the pan-Blue camp has long accused the National Communications Commission of exercising undue influence in allowing Mirror TV to obtain a broadcast license. Mirror TV is the first television network approved for broadcast in a decade and it is generally seen as more pan-Green in its political leanings...
A legal proposal from KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling would change the number of justices on the Constitutional Court required for the court to make decisions. The proposal has the clear aim of preventing the Constitutional Court from functioning at a time in which the expansion of legislative powers sought by the KMT is under review, with regard to its constitutionality. Though the proposal from Weng has not proceeded further in the legislative process as of yet, it is to be seen if the idea recurs from the KMT going forward...
KMT legislator Hsu Yu-Zhen, as well as other pan-Blue legislators, called for changes to recall laws in Taiwan last month in order to protect Keelung mayor Hsieh Kuo-liang. Hsieh is currently facing a recall campaign, which has now acquired the number of signatures necessary to hold a recall vote...
The legislature voted down the Executive Yuan’s motion to reconsider the controversial legislative powers this afternoon. This took place after two days of arguments between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps in the legislature...
