Green Party Taiwan
Green Party Taiwan 台灣綠黨 Táiwān Lǜ Dǎng | |
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| Chairperson |
Lee Keng-cheng (co-chair) Chang Yu-jing (co-chair) |
| Founded | 25 January 1996 |
| Headquarters | 6F, No. 28, Beiping E. Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan[1] |
| Ideology |
Green politics Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| International affiliation |
Asia Pacific Greens Federation Global Greens |
| Colours | Green |
| Legislative Yuan |
0 / 113 |
| Local councillors |
2 / 906 |
| Website | |
| greenparty.org.tw | |
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The Green Party Taiwan (Chinese: 台灣綠黨; pinyin: Táiwān Lǜ Dǎng; Taiwanese: Tâi-ôan Le̍k Tóng) is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwan nationalism and shares a number of centre-left positions with the Pan-Green Coalition, the party emphasizes campaigning primarily on social and environmental issues. The party is not a member of, and should not be confused with, the Pan-Green Coalition. Green Party Taiwan is a member of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation and participates in the Global Greens.
Electoral history
In 1996, Green Party Taiwan’s Kao Meng-Ting (高孟定) was elected to the National Assembly. However, he left the party in 1997.
In the 2008 legislative election, the Green Party of Taiwan formed a red-green coalition with a labour-led organization Raging Citizens Act Now! (人民火大行動聯盟), but failed to win any seats.
In the 2012 legislative election, Green Party Taiwan garnered 1.7% of the party vote. While still far short of the 5% threshold to win a seat in the legislature, this makes it the largest extraparliamentary party in Taiwan.[2] Its best showing is in Ponso no Tao where Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage facility is located. There, the party collected 35.76% of the party votes due to its strong antinuclear stance.
In the 2014 local elections, the party won two seats. Wang Hao-yu was elected to the Taoyuan City council and Jay Chou to the Hsinchu County Council.[3]
In the 2016 general election, the party ran in a coalition with the newly founded centre-left Social Democratic Party[4] and fielded candidates in both constituency races and the nationwide party ballot.[5] The coalition garnered 2.5% of the party vote without winning any seats.
List of chairpersons
- Mr. Kao Cheng-yan, 1996–1997 and 2003-2004 Chair. Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University; Green Party Taiwan's founding chair; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 1998 and 2001.
- Mr. Shin-Min Shih (施信民), 1998 Chair. Professor of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University; President of the Institute of Environment and Resource; former Director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union;
- Ms. Kuang-Yu Chen (陳光宇), 1999-2000 Chair. candidate for the Taipei City Councilor in 1998.
- Mr. Ayo Cheng (鄭先祐), 2001-2002 Chair. Dean of College of Environment and Ecology at National University of Tainan; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union.
- Ms. Yenwen Peng (彭渰雯), 2005 Chair. Assistant professor of Public Administration and Management at Shih Hsin University; candidate for the Taipei City Councilor in 1998.
- Mr. Sam Lin (林聖崇), 2006 Co-chair. Former Chair of Taiwan Ecology Conservation Union.
- Ms. Jolan Hsieh (謝若蘭), 2006 Co-chair. Assistant professor of Indigenous Culture at National Dong Hua University.
- Ms. Man-li Chen (陳曼麗), 2007 Co-chair. Former president of the Homemakers' Union and Foundation; former president of the National Union of Taiwan Women Association; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2008. Along with Karen Yu, she was elected to the legislature in 2016 after leaving to join the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Mr. Huei-Sean Hong (洪輝祥), 2007 Co-chair. President of Pingtung Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2004.
- Ms. Bau-Ju Chung (鍾寶珠), 2008-2009 Co-chair. President of Hualien Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Hualien County Councilor in 1998, 2002.
- Mr. Hong-Lin Chang (張宏林), 2008-2009 Co-chair. Secretary General of the Taiwan NPO Self-regulation Alliance; former Secretary General of the Society of Wildness; candidate for the Taipei City Councilor in 2006.
- Gelinda Chang: co-chair for 2011; educator.
- Robin Winkler: co-chair for 2011 and 2012; lawyer and founder of Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association; naturalised Taiwanese citizen.
- Karen Yu (余宛如): co-chair from 2012 to 2015; social entrepreneur and co-founder of Öko-Green Café, a Fairtrade coffee shop. Along with Man-li Chen, she was elected to the legislature in 2016 after leaving to join the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Lee Keng-cheng (李根政): co-chair from 2013 to 2017; artist, educator and founder of Citizen of the Earth Taiwan, an environmental organisation.
- Chang Yu-jing: co-chair from 2015 to 2017; mother and activist.
Notable persons
- Linda Gail Arrigo, international affairs officer for the party; ex-wife of Shih Ming-teh.
- Thomas Chan (詹順貴),[6] at-large candidate for the legislature in the 2016 election.[7] Although not elected, he was later appointed as deputy minister for the Environmental Protection Administration, in the first cabinet of the Tsai Ing-wen administration led by premier Lin Chuan.
- Peter Huang: famous for his failed assassination attempt against Chiang Ching-kuo in 1970; erstwhile National Policy Advisor on human rights issues to the President of the Republic of China; avid supporter of the party since it was founded.[8]
- Pan Han-Chiang (潘翰疆), member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the party, 1999; erstwhile vice secretary-general of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union. He split from Green Party Taiwan in 2014 to form the Trees Party.
- Kao Meng-Ting (高孟定), who won a seat in Yunlin County for Green Party Taiwan in the ROC National Assembly in 1996, but later defected to the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Lin Cheng-hsiu (林正修), erstwhile Research, Development and Evaluation Commission Director, Taipei City (apparently the only party member holding a public office in 2004); he ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the 2004 legislative election. In 2007, Lin was a campaign manager for Pan-Blue Coalition's presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou.
- Sinan Mavivo (希婻‧瑪飛洑; 賴美惠), the top candidate of the Green Party Taiwan list in the legislative election 2012, is an anti-nuclear campaigner. She is of the Tao people from Pongso no Tao.[9]
- Calvin Wen (溫炳原), a former Secretary-General of the Party, competed in the by-election in Da'an District due to the resignation of Diane Lee in 2009.
See also
- Politics of the Republic of China
- List of environmental organizations
- List of political parties in the Republic of China
- Green party
References
- ↑ "台灣綠黨". greenparty.org.tw.
- ↑ 綠黨超越新黨 成小黨落選頭. China Times (2012-01-15): Greens surpassing the New Party to be the largest extraparliamentary party.
- ↑ Chen, Christie (30 November 2014). "Green Party's historic win to bring 'green politics' to Taiwan". Central News Agency. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ↑ "Greens, Social Democrats to cooperate". taipeitimes.com.
- ↑ "Green Party Taiwan issues list of legislative candidates". taipeitimes.com.
- ↑ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/04/23/2003644625
- ↑ http://newtalk.tw/news/view/2015-08-25/63894
- ↑ 我為甚麼支持綠黨？ (Why do I support the Green Party?)
- ↑ Taiwan Today (2012) Tao Orchid Islanders continue fight for nuclear-free homeland
External links
- Green Party Taiwan official website
- Taipei Times (2008-01-14): Election fallout: Green Party stays upbeat despite poor performance
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