There were insufficient voters showing up to make the popular consultation valid. A large majority of the voters emerged turned out to be in favor of the reopening, but the number of voters was insufficient according to the rules to be decisive.
There were twenty million voters. To adopt the proposal for a restart with nuclear energy, according to the regulations, a quarter of the voters had to be ahead. That number was not achieved with the low turnout. About 4.3 million voters voted for the reopening and one and a half million against it.
The question was whether the Maanhan nuclear power plant could return to work. The central ditch in May when the permits went after forty years. The Taiwanese government already decided in 2016 to stop nuclear energy in the long term.