Polls open in Taiwan’s key ‘recall election’ closely watched by China | Politics News

Voting has started in a recall election that could see the unseating of dozens of opposition Kuomintang lawmakers.

Polls have opened in Taiwan’s high-stakes recall election that could give President William William Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) control of parliament, and send what his supporters describe as a strong rebuke to China.

Saturday’s polls on whether to recall one-fifth of the island’s parliament, all from the major Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party, have…