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- WORLD, Page 35World NotesTAIWANRebuff for the Kuomintang
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- There was never a chance that Taiwan's long-ruling
- Kuomintang would be defeated in national elections earlier this
- month. The suspense centered on whether the Democratic
- Progressive Party, in its maiden contest as a legal opposition,
- would even dent the KMT's armor. The results, announced last
- week, surprised many observers. D.P.P. candidates won 21 out of
- 101 available seats in the Legislative Yuan, enabling the party
- for the first time to sponsor new bills.
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- In the overall vote for both legislative and local races,
- the D.P.P. captured 30% of the ballots and independent
- candidates took 11%. That left the KMT, despite its control of
- the broadcast media and its fat campaign coffers, with a 59%
- share, an all-time low. The D.P.P.'s strong showing underscored
- growing resentment toward the KMT's 40-year political monopoly
- on Taiwan.
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