Zhu Fenglian Photo: Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council

Following the first round of voting on July 26, the people of Taiwan island once again said "No" to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)'s malicious political farce of suppressing dissent and sowing division, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Sunday after the second round of recall votes against seven Kuomintang (KMT) legislators in Taiwan island failed on Saturday.

This clearly shows that any attempt at "Taiwan independence" or political manipulation runs counter to public sentiment and is doomed to fail, said Zhu.

Vote counting began at 4 pm on Saturday, and the anti-recall camp maintained a lead throughout. By around 6 pm, the seven legislators successively announced that the recall against them had failed, according to multiple media reports on the island.

Earlier, on July 26, DPP-backed recall proposals targeting 24 KMT legislators and Hsinchu Mayor Kao Hung-an also failed to pass.

Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on July 27 that the failure of the recall campaign shows that the DPP's political manipulation runs against the will of the people and condemned the DPP's "green terror."

In a statement sent to the Global Times in July, the Labor Party of Taiwan condemned the recall campaign, saying it was never a manifestation of democracy from the very beginning; rather, it was a political purge manipulated by the DPP.

Global Times