BBC Chinese language reporter Li Luo Hualien report

The keep and departure of Kuomintang legislator Fu Kunqi has change into the main focus.

BBC Chinese language reporters got here to Fuxing Nationwide Major Faculty subsequent to the Hualien County Authorities. There are 4 voting stations within the space, and folks come to vote one after one other.

Ms. Liang, who’s finding out in Kaohsiung, returned to her hometown Hualien in the course of the summer season trip. She mentioned that that is her second vote after the 2024 election. She doesn’t really feel troublesome about voting once more a 12 months later. “As a result of that is the correct of the Taiwanese folks to referendum. I feel everybody ought to come out to guard and defend their rights, it doesn’t matter what vote you vote.”

She believes that Hualien is situated in a distant hometown and has been “political limitations” in improvement, and hopes to vigorously enhance transportation and revitalize the tourism business sooner or later.

Mr. Chen, who lives in Hualien, participated in election voting each time after Taiwan was democratized within the Nineteen Nineties, however this was the primary time he was faraway from the voting. He mentioned that “voting is a means of democracy” and he’s normally very involved about politics and what’s occurring in Congress. He described “Hualien is a comparatively closed place and democracy is tough to current in actuality”, however this time he was very comfortable that many individuals round him got here out to vote.

Ms. Wang was born and raised in Hualien after which went to work in Kaohsiung. She mentioned she had no plans to return house to vote, however after studying the information reviews and on-line info, she briefly determined to come back again to vote, “I hope to take part on this nationwide exercise.” She admitted that this vote was not essential to her, “nevertheless it needs to be fairly essential to Taiwan as an entire.”

Earlier than the voting, Ms. Wang additionally mentioned together with her household that she believed that the important thing to voting was the act of being requested to be eliminated, not the cross-strait subject. She believes that voting once more after the election is a form of political inside friction. “There are too many elections, and you do not know what they’re doing. You do not know some info, as a result of the knowledge is sophisticated now, and you aren’t positive whether or not it’s proper. We could also be confused by voting so continuously.”