TAIPEI: Voters in Taiwan are deciding Saturday whether to dismiss seven opposition members from the legislature and on a return to nuclear power five months after the last operating reactor shut down.<\/p>\n
The recall votes, the second in a month, are an attempt to restore ruling party control of the legislature after the Democratic Progressive Party lost its majority in a 2024 election.<\/p>\n
The prospects for doing so appear dim after 24 members of the opposition Nationalist Party all survived a first round of recall votes on July 26.<\/p>\n
The Democratic Progressive Party won the presidency in 2024 but neither party took a majority in the 113-seat legislature. The Nationalists, also known as the Kuomintang or KMT, won 52 seats, one more than the DPP.<\/p>\n
The Nationalists have teamed up with a third party, the Taiwan People\u2019s Party, to pass legislation, much to the consternation of the ruling DPP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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