Taiwanese citizens will soon vote to elect their mayor/county magistrate, city council members, and in a referendum – and each of these uses a different voting system.
Taipei was strangely quiet last Sunday morning. As the city entered its first full day of near-lockdown restrictions, residents awoke to images of a pandemic long felt to be happening elsewhere: deserted city centre streets, empty subway stations and shuttered restaurants. Taiwan, which has received international praise for its apparently airtight pandemic prevention, is currently contending with its first significant wave of domestically-transmitted coronavirus cases. After recording more than 250 days without a single local case, more than 3,500 local cases have been recorded since the new wave began. The outbreak encapsulates a trend emerging across Asia. Countries initially lauded for their success in pandemic prevention are now either seeing cases creep up, or are battling stubborn third or fourth waves. In Japan, May has seen cases most days surpass 5,000, with seven-day averages matching its previous peak; in South Korea, a lengthy fourth wave has seen daily cases stagnat
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