New Party (Taiwan)

New Party
新黨
ChairmanWu Cherng-dean
Vice ChairmanLee Sheng-feng
FounderJaw Shaw-kong, Yok Mu-ming et al.
FoundedAugust 22, 1993
Split fromKuomintang
HeadquartersTaipei
Membership (2020)at least 500[1]
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
National affiliationPan-Blue Coalition
Legislative Yuan
0 / 113
Municipal mayors
0 / 6
Magistrates/mayors
0 / 16
Councilors
1 / 912
Township/city mayors
0 / 204
Party flag
Website
www.np.org.tw
New Party
Traditional Chinese新黨
Simplified Chinese新党
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīn Dǎng
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳSîn Tóng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJSin Tóng
New Party Headquarters

The New Party (NP; Chinese: 新黨; pinyin: Xīn Dǎng; Hakka: Sîn Tóng), formerly the Chinese New Party (CNP), is a Chinese nationalist political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

The New Party was established in 1993 due to a split from the Kuomintang by members of the New Kuomintang Alliance, who were dissatisfied with Kuomintang Chairman Lee Teng-hui. In the 2000 presidential elections, the party symbolically nominated Li Ao as its candidate, but both Li and the party encouraged party members to support former Kuomintang member James Soong. It won one seat in the 2001 legislative elections, and saw significant support in the 2005–06 municipal elections, though its influence has waned since then.

The New Party is considered to be on the right-wing or the far-right of the political spectrum. It strongly supports unification with China under the "one country, two systems" formula and opposes Taiwanese independence. The New Party's "one country, two systems" plan proposes to establish a unified Chinese nation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. The Party's proposal also includes that after reunification, Taiwan would reduce the size of its military, stop purchasing U.S. equipment, and criminalize Taiwanese independence.

  1. ^ "新黨27周年黨慶 堅持和平統一理念" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
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