Taiwan's president calls for vote recount
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian tried to defuse a political crisis Tuesday, calling for a recount in an election he narrowly won just one day after a bizarre shooting slightly wounded him and his vice president. But Chen's party and the powerful opposition couldn't agree how to start the recount, and thousands of protesters continued to camp out in front of the Presidential Office demanding that the process begin immediately.
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