{"id":73087,"date":"2025-07-26T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/26\/attempt-to-unseat-24-pro-china-opposition-politicians-in-taiwan-appears-to-fail"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:35:01","slug":"attempt-to-unseat-24-pro-china-opposition-politicians-in-taiwan-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73087","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to unseat 24 \u2018pro-China\u2019 opposition politicians in Taiwan fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters rejected all the recall motions in a DPP-backed bid to unseat opposition MPs and gain a legislative majority<\/p>\n<p>An unprecedented attempt in Taiwan to unseat 24 \u201cpro-China\u201d opposition politicians and give a parliamentary majority to the ruling party has<strong> <\/strong>failed, with voters in every seat rejecting the notion.<\/p>\n<p>Polls opened on Saturday morning for the first 24 of 31 targeted electorates, with voters asked to agree or disagree with a proposal to recall the local legislator and hold a byelection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/26\/attempt-to-unseat-24-pro-china-opposition-politicians-in-taiwan-appears-to-fail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters rejected all the recall motions in a DPP-backed bid to unseat opposition MPs and gain a legislative majorityAn unprecedented attempt in Taiwan to unseat 24 \u201cpro-China\u201d opposition politicians and give a parliamentary majority to the ruling party &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73087\/revisions\/73095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}