‘NEW LIFE HAS COME’: A total of 939,090 people voted to remove Han Kuo-yu from office, more than the 892,545 votes he won to become mayor in 2018
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 07, 2020
By: Huang Hsin-po, Hung Chen-hung, Hsu Li-chuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Supporters of a campaign to recall Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu cheer outside the campaign headquarters after the recall vote passed in Kaohsiung yesterday.
Photo: CNA
The result made Han the nation’s first special municipality head to be recalled, just a year-and-a-half after he won a surprise victory over a candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which had run the city for two decades.
The vote was 939,090 in favor of recall and 25,051 against, with a 42.14 percent voter turnout, Kaohsiung City Election Commission data showed.
There are 2,299,981 eligible voters in the city, the data showed. [FULL STORY]
