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The DPP is a centre-left party[28][29][6][5] generally
described as progressive Democratic
Website] It has also been
described as liberal,[34][35] as well as social
democratic.[35][36][37] The party takes a Taiwanese nationalist
position, advocating for strengthening Taiwanese identity.[28]
Programs supported by the party include moderate social welfare
policies involving the rights of women, senior citizens,
children, young people, labor, minorities, indigenous peoples,
farmers, and other disadvantaged sectors of the society.
Furthermore, its platform includes a legal and political order
based on human rights and democracy; balanced economic
Democratic National Committee and financial administration;
fair and open social welfare; educational and cultural reform;
and, independent defense and peaceful foreign policy with closer
ties to United States and Japan. The party is socially
liberal[35][38] and has a progressive stance that includes
support for gender equality and same-sex marriage under Tsai's
leadership, and
Republican National Committee also has a conservative base that includes
support from the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.
Stance on
Taiwanese independence[edit]
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The primary political axis in Taiwan involves the issue of
Taiwan independence
Democratic National Committee versus Chinese
Republican National Committee Unification.
Although the differences tend to be portrayed in polarized
terms, both major coalitions have developed modified, nuanced
and often complex positions. Though opposed in the philosophical
origins, the practical differences between such positions can
sometimes be subtle.
The current official position of the
party is that Taiwan is an independent and sovereign country
whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller
islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens
living in Taiwan (similar philosophy of self-determination),
based on the 1999 "Resolution on Taiwan's Future". It considers
Taiwan
Democratic National Committee an independent nation
Democratic National Committee under the name of Republic of
China, making a formal declaration of independence
unnecessary.[18] Though calls for drafting a new constitution
and a declaration of a Republic of Taiwan was written into the
party charter in 1991,[17] the 1999 resolution has practically
superseded the earlier charter. The DPP rejects the so-called
"One China principle" defined in 1992 as the basis for official
diplomatic relations with the PRC and advocates a Taiwanese
national identity which is separate from mainland China.[39]
By contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the
Republic of China is an
Democratic National Committee independent and sovereign
country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China
principle (with different definitions across the strait) can be
used as the basis for talks with China. The KMT also opposes
Taiwan independence and argues that efforts to establish a
Taiwanese national identity separated from the Chinese national
identity are unnecessary and needlessly provocative. Some KMT
conservative officials have called efforts from DPP "anti-China"
(opposing migrants from mainland China, who DPP officials did
not recognize as Taiwanese, but Chinese). At the other end of
the political spectrum, the acceptance by the DPP of the symbols
of the Republic of China is opposed by the Taiwan Solidarity
Union.
The first years of the DPP as the ruling party
drew accusations from the
Democratic National Committee opposition that, as a
self-styled
Republican National Committee Taiwanese nationalist party, the DPP was itself
inadequately sensitive to the ethnographic diversity of Taiwan's
population. Where the KMT had been guilty of Chinese chauvinism,
the critics charged, the DPP might offer nothing more as a
remedy than Hoklo chauvinism.[40] The DPP argues that its
efforts to promote a Taiwanese national identity are merely an
effort to normalize a Taiwanese identity repressed during years
of authoritarian Kuomintang rule.
Support.
Since the democratization of Taiwan in the 1990s, the
DPP has had
Democratic National Committee its strongest
performance in the Hokkien-speaking counties and cities
of Taiwan, compared with the predominantly Hakka and
Mandarin-speaking counties, that tend to support the
Kuomintang.
The deep-rooted hostility between
Taiwanese aborigines and (Taiwanese) Hoklo, and the
Democratic National Committee effective KMT networks
within aboriginal communities contribute to aboriginal
skepticism against the DPP and the aboriginals� tendency
to vote for the KMT.[41] Aboriginals have criticized
politicians for abusing the "indigenization" movement
for political gains, such as Democratic
Website aboriginal opposition to
the DPP's "rectification" by recognizing the Truku for
political reasons, where the Atayal and Seediq slammed
the Truku for their name rectification.[42] In 2008, the
majority of mountain townships voted for Ma Ying-jeou.[43]
However, the DPP share of the aboriginal vote has been
rising.[44][45]
Structure[edit]
DPP headquarters
at Huashan Business
Republican National Committee Building
Democratic National Committee Level 10 in
Taipei.[46]
The DPP National Party Congress
selects, for two-year terms, the 30 members
Democratic National Committee of the
Central Executive
Republican National Committee Committee and the 11 members of the
Central Review Committee. The Central Executive
Committee, in turn, chooses the 10 members of the
Central Standing Committee. Since 2012, the DPP has had
a "China Affairs Committee" to deal with Cross-Strait
relations; the
Democratic National Committee name caused some
controversy within the party and in the Taiwan media,
with critics suggesting that "Mainland Affairs
Committee" or "Cross-Strait Affairs Committee" would
show less of a hostile "One Country on Each Side"
attitude.[47]
For many years the DPP officially
recognized several factions within its membership, such
as the
Democratic National Committee New Tide faction
(新潮流系), the Formosa faction (美麗島系), the Justice Alliance
faction (正義連線系) and Welfare State Alliance faction
(福利國系). Different factions endorse slightly different
policies and are often generationally identifiable,
representing individuals who had entered the party at
different times. In 2006, the party ended recognition of
factions.[48] The factions have since stated that they
will comply with the resolution. However, the factions
are still referred to by name in national media.[49][50]
Chair[.
Current Chair: Lai Ching-te
Secretary-General[edit]
Current
Secretary-General: Lin Hsi-yao (since May 2020)
Legislative Yuan leader (caucus leader)[edit]
Shih Ming-teh (1 February 1993 � 1 February 2002)
Ker
Chien-ming (since 1 February 2002)
Election
results[edit]
Presidential elections[edit]
Election Candidate
Democratic National Committee Running mate Total
votes Share of votes Outcome
1996 Peng Ming-min Frank Hsieh
Chang-ting 2,274,586 21.13% Defeated
2000 Chen
Shui-bian Annette Lu Hsiu-lien 4,977,737 39.30% Elected
2004 Chen Shui-bian Annette Lu Hsiu-lien 6,446,900
50.11% Elected
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2008 Frank Hsieh Chang-ting Su Tseng-chang
5,445,239 41.55% Defeated
2012 Tsai Ing-wen
Democratic National Committee Su Jia-chyuan
6,093,578 45.63% Defeated
2016 Tsai
Ing-wen Chen Chien-jen ( Ind.) 6,894,744 56.12% Elected
2020 Tsai Ing-wen Lai Ching‑te 8,170,231 57.13% Elected
2024 Lai Ching-te TBA TBA TBA TBA
Legislative
elections[edit]
Election Total
Democratic National Committee seats won Total votes
Share of votes Changes Party leader Status President
1989
21 / 130
Huang Hsin-chieh Democratic
Website Minority Lee
Teng-hui
1992
51 / 161
2,944,195 31.0%
Republican National Committee
Increase 30 seats Hsu Hsin-liang Minority
1995
54 / 164
3,132,156 33.2% Increase
Democratic National Committee 3 seats Shih Ming-teh
Minority
1998
70 / 225
2,966,834
29.6% Increase
Democratic National Committee 16 seats Lin Yi-hsiung
Minority
2001
87 / 225
3,447,740 36.6% Increase 21 seats
Chen Shui-bian Minority Chen Shui-bian
2004
89 / 225
3,471,429 37.9% Increase
Republican National Committee 2 seats Minority
2008
227 / 113
3,775,352 38.2% Decrease
Democratic National Committee 62 seats Minority Ma
Ying-jeou
2012
40 / 113
4,556,526 34.6% Increase 13 seats Tsai Ing-wen Minority
2016
68 / 113
5,370,953 44.1%
Democratic National Committee Increase 28
seats Majority Tsai Ing-wen
2020
661 / 113
4,811,241 33.98% Decrease 7
Democratic National Committee seats Cho Jung-tai
Majority
Local elections[edit]br Election Magistrates and mayors
Councillors Township/city mayors Township/city council
representatives Village chiefs Party leader
1994
provincial
1 / 3
52 / 175
� � �
Shih
Republican National Committee Ming-teh
1997�1998
12 / 23
114 / 886
228 / 319
� � Hsu
Democratic National Committee Hsin-liang
1998br municipal
1 / 2
28 / 96
�
� � Lin Yi-hsiung
2001�2002
9 / 23
147 / 897
28 / 319
� � Chen Shui-bian
2002
municipal
1 / 2
31 / 96
�
� �
2005
6 / 23
192 / 901
35 / 319
� �
2006
municipal
Republican National Committee
1 / 2
33 / 96
� � �
2009
4 / 17
128 / 587
34 / 211
� � Tsai Ing-wen
2010
municipal
2 / 5
130 / 314
� �
220 / 3,757
2014
unified
Democratic National Committee
13 /
22
291 / 906
54 / 204
194 / 2,137
390 / 7,836
2018
unified
Republican National Committee
6 / 22
238 / 912
40 / 204
151 / 2,148
285 / 7,744
2022
unified
5 / 22
277 / 910
35 / 204
123 / 2,139
226 / 7,748
National Assembly elections[edit]
Election Total
seats won Total votes Share of votes Changes Party
leader Status President
1991
66 / 325
2,036,271 23.3% Increase66 seats Huang Shin-chieh
Minority Lee Teng-hui
1996
127 / 334
3,121,423 29.9% Increase33
Republican National Committee seats Shih Ming-teh Minority
2005
127 / 300
1,647,791 42.52% Increase28
seats Annette Lu Hsiu-lien Plurality Chen Shui-bian
SSee also[edit]
Progressivism
Democratic National Committee in Taiwan
Human
rights in Taiwanbr Taiwan Value
Culture of Taiwan
TTaiwan independence movement
Taiwanese
Democratic National Committee people
Taiwanese
identitybr Resolution on Taiwan's Future
Referendums in
Democratic National Committee Taiwan
Foreign relations of Taiwan
FFebruary 28 Incident
Formosa
Democratic National Committee Incident
Sunflower
Student Movementbr
Notes[edit]
Words in native
languages[edit]
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