Election Controversy Continues

February 2007 | Risk Summary

The district court of Taiwan's Kaohsiung City has ordered that the votes from December's mayoral election must be recounted, upholding claims from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT)'s losing candidate, Huang Chun-ying, that the result should be declared invalid. On December 9, 2006, Chen Chu from Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the mayoral race by just 1,114 votes. The recount is to start on March 12, and is expected to take around six

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