Elderly people in wheelchairs or using walking sticks chatted easily to one another while waiting in line, while many younger voters appeared somberTAIPEI, Taiwan (The China Post), March 24, 2008:
Taiwan voters just want a better life and economy, declared Benjamin Yeh, reporting for AFP in The China Post, March 23.......
Chou, a 50-year-old Taiwanese businessman based in Shanghai who would only give his surname, said he had returned to vote with his wife.
"Taiwan needs to change, and if the change of power does not happen and things remain the way they are, I think Taiwan is doomed."
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Ma Ying-jeou, 57, seen in photo below, won the elections and was declared the new president of Taiwan.
Photo courtesy: Romeo Gacad / AFP / Getty
Taiwan's 17.3 million voters were also asked Saturday to vote on two rival referendums on joining the United Nations. The island lost its seat to mainland China in 1971 and has been blocked from returning ever since. Neither was expected to reach the required turnout threshold. "They're useless," one man in his 70s was overheard saying. "Whether they pass or not there is no chance of Taiwan joining the U.N., so why bother to vote?"
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