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Second round of recall campaign fails again amid public discontent with Taiwan's DPP authorities

Global Times

By Global Times Published: Aug 23, 2025 08:23 PM

The second round of recall votes against seven Kuomintang (KMT) legislators in Taiwan island failed on Saturday - the "no" votes consistently outnumbered the "yes" votes - meaning all 32 recall proposals promoted by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) this year have been rejected.

Vote counting began at 4 pm, and the anti-recall camp maintained a lead throughout. By around 6 pm, the 7 legislators successively announced that the recall against them had failed, according to the island's Central News Agency.

Earlier, on July 26, recall proposals targeting 24 KMT legislators and Hsinchu Mayor Kao Hung-an also failed to pass.

Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on July 27 that the failure of the recall campaign shows that the DPP's political manipulation runs against the will of the people and condemned the DPP's "green terror."

In a statement sent to the Global Times in July, the Labor Party of Taiwan condemned the recall campaign, saying it was never a manifestation of democracy from the very beginning; rather, it was a political purge manipulated by the DPP.