Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/13/2020 09:18 PM
By: Liu Chien-pang and Matthew Mazzetta

Taipei, June 13 (CNA) Around 500 people rallied in front of Taiwan's Presidential Office Building on Saturday to protest the June 6 recall of Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) as mayor of Kaohsiung, despite Han's call for the organizer to cancel the event.

Huang Cheng-chung (黃正忠), chairman of the Democratic Oversight Alliance, applied on June 8 to hold the rally on Taipei's Ketagalan Boulevard, just two days after Han's recall and the death of his political ally, Kaohsiung City Council Speaker Hsu Kun-yuan (許崑源), in an apparent suicide.

The group initially expected around 2,000 people at the event, but actual attendance remained significantly lower after sources close to Han called for it to be canceled.

Without the support of Han and his party, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), the rally served as an open platform for speakers and members of the public to protest against the government, mourn Hsu and promote recall campaigns against politicians aligned with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).    [FULL  STORY]