# A referendum to keep Maanshan running fails the turnout threshold on the second recall ballot Date: 2025 ## The fact On 23 August 2025 voters also faced a referendum asking whether Maanshan should continue to operate if the competent authority found no safety concern. A majority of those who voted said yes, but turnout missed the legal threshold, so the proposal did not pass. Seven remaining KMT recall bids failed the same day. He did not sit as CEC. A later Taipower restart application is a child. ## Context 17 May shutdown sat as parent. Neighbouring 26 July recall wave is parent polarisation. The DPP did not campaign as a nuclear-restart party. He later allowed feasibility work; that is a child. 17 May Maanshan-2 is the parent shutdown. 26 July recalls are neighbouring civic polarisation. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te. ## Evidence and sources Central Election Commission Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. The Diplomat records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is polarisation and [nuclear-energy deployment](/drivers/nuclear-energy-deployment): a completed civic instrument that neither restarted the plant nor ended the fight. ## What is established and what is not Established: 23 August 2025 referendum failed the turnout threshold, independently reported. Not established: that every later restart application was thereby barred, or a unique later kWh coefficient from that Saturday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. CEC canvassed. He owned the energy line. Taipower later filed child restart papers.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies A referendum to keep Maanshan running fails the turnout threshold on the second recall ballot, not a later speech about A referendum to keep Maanshan running fails the turnout threshold on the second recall ballot. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. A referendum to keep Maanshan running fails the turnout threshold on the second recall ballot on 2025-08-23 is not a licence to treat every later Central Election Commission Taiwan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average A referendum to keep Maanshan running fails the turnout threshold on the second recall ballot into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Petitioners put the question. CEC canvassed. He owned the energy line. Taipower later filed child restart papers. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization - Nuclear-Energy Deployment: https://factrail.ai/drivers/nuclear-energy-deployment ## Sources - https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/taiwans-great-recall-movement-is-officially-over/ - https://web.cec.gov.tw/english/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-nuke-ref-2025