TAIPEI, March 30 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

TAIPEI, March 30 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES WITH note TO COURT FROM CHEN)

Taiwan's High Court decided Tuesday it will lordship on a request by defeated candidate Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party (KMT) for a enumerate of the more than 13 million ballots cast in the March 20 presidential election.

upon the same day, the Central Election Commission sent on the outside the official document to President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu to certify their victory in the election.

Last week, the High Court ordered all ballots cast March 20 sealed for a possible give an account of but it rejected ruling upon the call for a rehearse because Chen and Lu had notwithstanding to have been declared the winners according to the election commission.

Lien re-lodg a suit for a rehearse late Monday after the election commission had declared Chen the winner last Friday.

''The (recount) case was brought again on KMT candidate Lien against the electee at 11 pm last night,'' critic Wen Yao-yuan told reporters.

He noted that in accordance with the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act, the High Court must concluded its review of the case and issue a verdict within six months

Lien is seeking an immediate repeat because Chen won by fewer 30000 suffrages just 0.2% of the ballots casts.

More than 330000 suffrages were deemed invalid, but a analysts suggested the large number of spoiled ballots may be because one who supported neither candidate urg folks to leave their ballots blank to point out their dissatisfaction with both Chen and Lien.

The opposition urg Chen to cooperate in a tell citing his pledge through the whole extent of the weekend to agree to a recite to defuse the political crisis triggered according to the presidential election.

Later Tuesday, he submitted a alphabetic character to the High Court indicating he has no objections to a recount

The president's note effectively removes any need for the Lien camp to submit supporting evidence of the ne for a rehearse which should allow the court to mastership on the opposition petition quickly.

Besides a recite Lien is also demanding an independent probe into an election-eve shooting incident in which the one and the other Chen and Lu were grazed by way of bullets.

In addition, the opposition accused Chen's administration of making a decision to activate the ''national security mechanism'' following the shooting, which they claimed deprived at least one-sixth of the servicemen and women expanded around the island of their right to vote

They want the president to issue an extremity decree so that an impartial canon Investigation Committee can be quickly formed to examine into the March 19 shooting incident.

The opposition claims the incident generated sympathy promiseds that tipped the balance in the presidential election to Chen and running mate Lu

if it be not that Chen's administration believes no extra task force is destitutioned because the State Public Prosecutor General's Office, subordinate to the Supreme Court, has answered to the opposition request and will invite ables to join a government-led probe of the shooting.

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