TAIPEI (Reuters) - The speaker of Taiwan's legislature will be able to retain his party standing, a court ruled on Wednesday, in the latest development in a dispute seen as a potential threat to Taiwan's China-friendly ruling party ahead of local elections this year.
Wang Jin-pyng, widely viewed as the government's second most powerful figure, had been expelled from the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), or Nationalist Party, by Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou in September for alleged lobbying in a legal case.
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