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Taiwan "referendum" vetoed by the people
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-21 08:23
The Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council issued a statement
Saturday saying that the so-called "peace referendum" held by the Taiwan
authorities goes against the will of the people and is doomed to failure.
The statement says: "On March 20, the Taiwan authorities willfully held the
so-called 'peace referendum' in a provocative attempt to undermine cross-Straits
relations and split the motherland. The referendum turned out to be invalid.
Facts have proven that this illegal act goes against the will of the people. Any
attempt to separate Taiwan from China is doomed to failure."
TAIWAN ELECTION CAUSES DISPUTES
China's mainland is watching closely on the developments in the leader
election of Taiwan region, a spokesman with the Taiwan Affairs Office of the
State Council said on Saturday.
The vote ended on Saturday, but one side of the candidates claimed it was
unfair and decided to file a lawsuit to nullify the election, according to media
in Taiwan.
"We are closely following the developments," said the spokesman in response
to the a request for comment on the disputes in Taiwan leader election.
The voting for the election of Taiwan authorities' leaders was carried out
across the island on Saturday. According to the result released by the Taiwan
election authorities, Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu, candidates for the
Democratic Progressive Party, won 6,471,970 votes, or 50.11 percent of the
total; while Lien Chan and James Soong, of the coalition of the Kuomintang and
People First Party, won 49.89 percent of the votes, totaling 6,442,452.
Lien and Soong made strong announcements immediately after the election to
call into question of the result, saying that "it was an unfair election" and
there were "numerous clouds of suspicions "in the run-up to the election.
The coalition of Lien and Soong demanded that all the ballot boxes be sealed
up and said they were going to "file a petition to nullify the election."
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