The New Power Party (NPP; Chinese: ????; pinyin: Shídài Lìliàng; Pe?h-?e-j?: Sî-t?i Le?k-li?ng) is a political party in Taiwan formed in early 2015. The party emerged from the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014 and advocates for universal human rights, civil and political liberties, as well as Taiwan independence. The party is a part of the political phenomenon known as the "Third Force" (????), in which new political parties, unaligned with traditional Pan-Green or Pan-Blue Coalitions, sought to provide an alternative in Taiwanese politics. Nevertheless, the NPP's policies are very much aligned and closely matches the Pan-Green camp; thus the NPP cooperated with the DPP against the KMT in the 2016 elections, going as far as to run in traditional KMT strongholds to avoid competition with the DPP.
The party was started by Freddy Lim, lead vocalist of Taiwanese heavy-metal band Chthonic, veteran activist Michael Lin, human rights lawyers Lin Fong-cheng, Chiu Hsien-chih and other prominent figures of the Sunflower Student Movement. Lim headed the party-building process, which saw the inclusion of Hung Tzu-yung, sister of late Hung Chung-chiu, environmental lawyer Ko Shau-Chen, and author-activist Neil Peng into the party. On 12 September 2015, the NPP was officially formed with the election of Huang Kuo-chang as executive leader, heading a leadership team of six deputy leaders.
The NPP won five legislative seats in the 2016 general election, 3 from constituencies and 2 from proportional, beating out long-time third party People First Party.
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Platform
The NPP aims to rewrite the Constitution of the Republic of China, which operates under the assumption that the Republic governs all of China (including mainland China, which the ROC has not governed since 1949), to just refer to Taiwan.
The NPP supports the legalization of same-sex marriage, and is generally in favour of abolition of capital punishment. Despite the fact, according to the poll numbers, more than 80% of the Taiwanese people support maintaining the use of capital punishment.
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History
- The party was established on 25 January 2015.
- Huang Kuo-chang was elected its leader on 13 September 2015.
Leadership
Party-building Team (prior to September 13, 2015)
Party Leadership Team
Election
Taiwan legislative election, 2016
Members of the Ninth Legislative Yuan
In the 2016 Taiwanese general election, the first contested by the party, the NPP won five seats in the Legislative Yuan, making it the third largest party there. Three of the winners gained constituency seats and two were elected through the party list.
See also
- Pan-Purple Coalition
- List of political parties in Taiwan
- Politics of the Republic of China
- Formosa Alliance
References
External links
- New Power Party on Facebook (in Chinese)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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