Taiwan political parties

Last modified: 2005-03-12 by phil nelson
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• Political Parties in Taiwan
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• Democratic Progressive Party
• Independentist flag
• Kuomintang
• New Party
• Peoples First Party
• Taiwan Independence Party
• Taiwan Labor Party flag
• World United Formosans for Independence
• Campaign Flag(s)

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Political Parties in Taiwan

The major Pan-China parties:

• Kuomintang
• New Party
• People First Party (No flag, as I aware of and as noted in the party's constitution. Party colours are Orange and Blue.)

The latter two are factions of the Kuomintang split during the Lee Teng Hui era.

Pro-Independence Parties:

• Democratic Progressive Party
• Taiwan Independence Party
• Taiwan Solidarity Union

Taiwan Independence Flag

by Dean Thomas

In the AOL news today, there were pictures taken of a rally in Taipei where over 100,000 persons demanded a name change from REPUBLIC OF CHINA to TAIWAN. They were carrying a huge flag with them.
Dean Thomas. 6 September 2003

This can not be a Taiwanese (proposed) national flag. It's a political rally banner for foreign press pictures. Unless the Taiwanese would change also the national language to English.
Francisco Santos, 6 September 2003

Campaign Flag(s)

contributed by Jorge Candeias

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contributed by Jorge Candeias

This a picture of a very happy Taiwanese citizen, waving a flag off the roof of his car. It illustrated an article on the victory of Chen Shui-bian in the March 2004 elections, and I strongly suspect that this is a short-lived campaign flag. See detail for the amount of writing it includes and the number 1, which is an electoral code.

This is interesting because here whenever presidential elections are held, we also see lots of flags, but never flags that include the picture of the candidate, much less his wife (supposing that that's who the woman is). Flags here include flags with the campaign slogans and logos, of the parties and organizations that endorse the candidacies, the national flag also pops up every once and a while, other flags are also seen on occasion, but photos never appear.

And it's also interesting because this topic of campaign flags is very poorly studied, probably due to the extreme brevity in each of these flag's life.
Jorge Candeias, 8 November 2004

The woman is Madam Vice President, Annette Lui
Miles Li, 9 November 2004