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France 24
France 24
World
Natasha LI

Taiwanese youth voice income, housing concerns ahead of crucial elections

Pedestrians walk along a street in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. © Louise Delmotte, AP

While cross-strait relations remain an overarching theme in Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections this weekend, many young voters are more concerned with domestic issues, such as low wages and housing, that preoccupy them as much as or even more than the threat of an invasion by the People's Republic of China. FRANCE 24 met with several of them. 

Some 19.5 million Taiwanese are eligible to vote in the island’s presidential and legislative elections on Saturday, January 13. Some 2.8 million, or 15 percent, are aged between 20 and 29 years old. 

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