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Courts Become New Battleground in Taiwan's Recall Saga
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3/24/2025
As civic groups move to recall legislators from Taiwan's two biggest political parties, both sides have become embroiled in legal battles over the validity of petition signatures.
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Recall movements are taking aim at lawmakers from Taiwan's two biggest
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political parties, the Democratic Progressive Party and the Kuomintang.
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Civic groups are looking to take down legislators from both parties over
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differences in the country's legislature. The opposition Kuomintang, in coalition
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with the smaller Taiwan People's Party, holds a slight majority over the ruling
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DPP in Taiwan's chamber. The impasse has caused deadlocks over everything from
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the country's judiciary to the annual budget. Taiwan's recall laws require
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voters to sign petitions to progress past each stage. The KMT has landed
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itself in legal trouble over recall petition efforts. Last week, authorities
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in the southern city of Tainan detained representatives from a KMT branch office
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on suspicion of forgery after carrying out an extensive search. They
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investigated allegations that some signatures supporting the KMT were
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fraudulent.
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On the other side, the KMT says a civic group targeting one of their legislators is
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collecting fraudulent signatures. A group of KMT lawmakers have filed a suit
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against the civic group, calling on Taipei prosecutors to investigate their
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petition efforts. The KMT's argument is that the DPP is using its influence as
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ruling party to manipulate the recalls.
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The civic group the KMT is targeting says it's followed all relevant laws.
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These cases are still pending, but it shows just how heated Taiwan's recall
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movement is getting. With the legislature at stake, both parties are
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using any means at their disposal to fight. Joseph Wu and Leslie Liao for
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