Chapter 4 Protests and Conflicts

In Chapter 4 of the book “ Taiwanese Identification and Democracy”(Olwen Bedford and Kwang-Kuo Hwang ,2006), the two authors Olwen Bedford and Kwang-Kuo Hwang talk about the protests and conflicts after the 2004 election of president. According to the author, Chen was elected for the new president only because one day before the vote, Chen was shot while campaigning near his hometown in Southern Taiwan. The authors firmly believe that is why the losing presidential and vice-presidential candidates called for a recount
In section 1, the authors talk about the scale of the protest led by pan-blue party, including the KMT (Kuo Min Tang) and PFP (People First party). They wrote that thousands of Taiwanese from many cities not only the capital Taipei joining the protest which named “We Want the Truth, We Fight for Justice, We Will Save Democracy”.
In section 2, the authors showed audience the president’s response. The authors said that first President Chen wanted to see the opposition leaders but did not have agreement. So the pan-blue supporters went on protesting. Then the authors told audience in the late times of that day, the president and the opposition leaders finally came to agreement.” According to the authors ,the agreement is that Central Election Commission (CEC) would recount the vote but the opposition leaders must stop the protests simultaneously.
The authors illustrated that until now, they were sure that the election of president was over finally.