Tens of thousands of Taiwanese were rallying on Sunday
against
President Ma Ying-jeou amid plummeting opinion polls and bipartisan
anger over the wiretapping of legislators. About 50,000 protesters were
gathered in front of the Presidential Office in downtown
Taipei on Sunday to
demand Mr. Ma step down over a host of issues, including economic management
and a wiretapping scandal that has incurred the wrath of legislators across
party lines. The protesters were demanding the abolition of the
SpecialInvestigation Division (SID), a prosecutorial body whose wiretap data Mr. Ma
used to demand the resignation of Legislative Speaker and party rival Wang
Jin-pyng over alleged influence peddling. Mr. Ma was comfortably re-elected in
2012 on a platform of improving economic ties with China, but the Wang-led
legislature is delaying a key cross-strait economic agreement despite Mr. Ma’s
Nationalists holding a majority in the chamber.
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