Forwarded from 📡Guardians of Hong Kong
#Taiwan
Sweeping victory for pro-HongKongers councilor to defend her seat in city council
An independent councilor in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city kept her seat despite an attempt by supporters of a pro-Beijing party to kick her out in a recall election.
Huang Chieh, a prominent supporter of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, prevailed as city councilor in the Kaohsiung district of Fengshan after more than 65,200 people rejected the motion to unseat her, compared with the 55,300 or so who voted yes.
At least 41.5%, or 121,000 voters, out of the 291,000 eligible cast ballots in the weekend poll.
The campaign against Huang was largely seen as one of a number of retaliatory moves driven by supporters of the opposition party Kuomintang. One of the reasons for seeking to oust Huang was that she had “illegally intervened in ‘Hong Kong violence’ by arranging for donations of supplies” to back the city’s pro-democracy movement, said the Central Election Commission, Taiwan’s statutory agency managing elections.
Source: Apple Daily #Feb6
https://bit.ly/36O7rUf
#HuangChieh #KaoHsiung
Sweeping victory for pro-HongKongers councilor to defend her seat in city council
An independent councilor in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city kept her seat despite an attempt by supporters of a pro-Beijing party to kick her out in a recall election.
Huang Chieh, a prominent supporter of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, prevailed as city councilor in the Kaohsiung district of Fengshan after more than 65,200 people rejected the motion to unseat her, compared with the 55,300 or so who voted yes.
At least 41.5%, or 121,000 voters, out of the 291,000 eligible cast ballots in the weekend poll.
The campaign against Huang was largely seen as one of a number of retaliatory moves driven by supporters of the opposition party Kuomintang. One of the reasons for seeking to oust Huang was that she had “illegally intervened in ‘Hong Kong violence’ by arranging for donations of supplies” to back the city’s pro-democracy movement, said the Central Election Commission, Taiwan’s statutory agency managing elections.
Source: Apple Daily #Feb6
https://bit.ly/36O7rUf
#HuangChieh #KaoHsiung