Taiwan news
Written by: Ye Qi
2020-06-06 17:13
Date of last update: 2020-06-06 18:06Kaohsiung Mayor Korea Yu’s removal has a result. According to the Taiwan Election Commission, as of 6 pm, the number of votes for the removal of Korea Yu has exceeded 930,000 votes, which is more than the number of votes that South Korea’s election to the mayor of Kaohsiung in 2018 (892,545 Votes), but disagree that the number of votes is only more than 20,000 votes.
Since the number of votes for consent is greater than the number of votes for disagreement, and has exceeded the threshold of 570,000 votes, after the defeat of the presidential election in Taiwan, South Korea Yu will now lose the position of mayor of Kaohsiung, becoming the first in Taiwan’s history to be successfully removed Mayor.
A large number of supporters cheered outside the headquarters of "Strike South Korea" and waited for invoicing. (Central News Agency)
According to previous media reports, the Korean strike case had to meet two conditions to achieve the purpose of recall. First, there were more consent votes than non-consent votes; and second, the consent votes were 25% higher than the total number of electors, that is, about 57,996 consent votes. In this vote, the vote of consent exceeded the threshold.
After the removal case was confirmed, the "Recovering Kaohsiung Headquarters" who supported the removal of Korea shouted with joy. A large number of citizens shouted "I am Kaohsiung, I am proud!" Some people cry and some growl, it is difficult to accept the recall result.
It is understood that after the removal of South Korea’s Yu was passed, the Central Election Commission officially announced the voting results within one week, and South Korea’s Yu will be officially dismissed by then, and Kaohsiung City will conduct a by-election within three months.
It is worth mentioning that this is the second time Korea Yu was dismissed, but it was the first time he was successfully dismissed. In 1994, four Kuomintang-based Taipei County legislators, including South Korea’s Yu, were dismissed by anti-nuclear groups because they were in favor of the construction of Nuclear Fourth (Longmen Nuclear Power Plant). According to the provisions of the Election Removal Law at that time, a recall case must be approved by more than one-half of the electorate and more than one-half the number of votes. Since the voting rate of 21.36% did not meet the threshold at that time, the removal of South Korea Yu and others failed.
It is also understood that after South Korea’s removal from office and before the by-election is completed, the mayor of Kaohsiung will be represented by the Taiwan Executive Yuan until the by-election is completed.
Regarding the Kaohsiung Mayor by-election, the Democratic Progressive Party has a higher chance of serving as Vice President of the Executive Yuan Chen Qimai, and the KMT candidate for the by-election is still unknown. Chen Qimai participated in the mayoral election of Kaohsiung in 2018, and finally won 742,239 votes, losing to South Korea Yu who got 892,545 votes.
(Comprehensive report)
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