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Green Party Taiwan[I] is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwanese 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.
Green Party Taiwan 台灣綠黨 | |
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| Chairperson | Chiu Po-wei (邱柏瑋) Lim Khiun Chhin (林裙靜) |
| Founded | 25 January 1996 |
| Headquarters | 4F-7, No. 35, Shaoxing North Street, Zhongzheng, Taipei[1] |
| Membership | 400 |
| Ideology | Green politics Anti-imperialism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Pan-Green Coalition |
| Regional affiliation | Asia Pacific Greens Federation |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| Colours | Green |
| Legislative Yuan | 0 / 113 |
| Municipal mayors | 0 / 6 |
| Magistrates/mayors | 0 / 16 |
| Councilors | 0 / 910 |
| Township/city mayors | 0 / 204 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺灣綠黨 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 台湾绿党 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Much of the 400-strong membership are affiliated with the non-governmental organisation sector of Taiwanese society, as well as from academia and the youth community.[2]
Electoral history
editIn 1996, Green Party Taiwan’s Kao Meng-ting 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.[3] Its best showing is in Orchid Island, where Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage facility is located. There, the party collected 35.76% of the party votes due to its strong anti-nuclear stance.
In the 2014 local elections, the party won two seats. Wang Hao-yu was elected to the Taoyuan City Council, and Jay Chou was elected to the Hsinchu County Council.[4]
In the 2016 general election, the party ran in a coalition with the newly founded centre-left Social Democratic Party[5] and fielded candidates in both constituency races and the nationwide party ballot.[6] The coalition garnered 2.5% of the party vote without winning any seats.[7]
In the 2020 legislative election, the Green Party nominated five young professionals, including famed psychologist Cheng Hui-wen and party founder Kao Cheng-yan.[8] They got 2.4% of the votes and did not win any seats. They were the second largest party that didn’t win a seat.[9]
In the 2022 local election, the party won only one seat. Liu Chong-hsian was elected to the Hsinchu City Council.[10]
The Green Party nominated Taiwan's first transgender legislative candidate, Abbygail ET Wu (吳伊婷), in the 2024 election cycle. The party won 117,298 votes (0.85%), not enough to seat any candidate named on the Green Party list.[11]
On March 30, 2024, Liu Chong-hsian resigned from the party.[12] This leaves the party with no members holding public office.
The Green Party averages around 3% of total votes cast in metropolitan urban areas, with support in rural areas, such as Orchid Island, as high as 35.8%.[2]
| Election | Mayors & Magistrates |
Councils | Third-level Municipal heads |
Third-level Municipal councils |
Fourth-level Village heads |
Election Leader |
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| 2018 unified |
0 / 22
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3 / 912
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0 / 204
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1 / 2,148
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0 / 7,744
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Wang Hao-yu |
| 2022 unified |
0 / 22
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1 / 910
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0 / 204
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0 / 2,139
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0 / 7,748
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Yu Hsiao-ching |
List of chairpersons
edit- Kao Cheng-yan (高成炎), 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.
- 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;
- Kuang-Yu Chen (陳光宇), 1999–2000 Chair. candidate for the Taipei City Council in 1998.
- 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.
- Yen-Wen Peng (彭渰雯), 2005 Chair. Assistant professor of Public Administration and Management at Shih Hsin University; candidate for the Taipei City Council in 1998.
- Sam Lin (林聖崇), 2006 Co-chair. Former Chair of Taiwan Ecology Conservation Union.
- Jolan Hsieh (謝若蘭), 2006 Co-chair. Assistant professor of Indigenous Culture at National Dong Hwa University.
- Mary 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. Elected to the legislature in 2016 after joining the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Hung Hui-hsiang (洪輝祥), 2007 Co-chair. President of Pingtung Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2004.
- Chung Pao-chu (鍾寶珠), 2008–2009 Co-chair. President of Hualien Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Hualien County Councilor in 1998, 2002.
- Leo 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 Council in 2006.
- Gelinda Chang,[citation needed] 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 OKOGreen café, a fair trade coffee shop. Elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016 as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Ken-cheng Lee (李根政), co-chair from 2013 to 2017; artist, educator and founder of Citizen of the Earth Taiwan, an environmental organisation.
- Chang Yu-ching (張育憬), co-chair from 2015 to 2017; environmental activist.[citation needed]
Notable persons
edit- Linda Gail Arrigo, international affairs officer for the party; ex-wife of Shih Ming-teh.
- Thomas Chan (詹順貴),[13] at-large candidate for the legislature in the 2016 election.[14] 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 (黃文雄), notable for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Chiang Ching-kuo in 1970; former National Policy Advisor on human rights issues to the President of the Republic of China; avid supporter of the party since it was founded.[15]
- Pan Han-chiang (潘翰疆), member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the party, 1999; former deputy 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 National Assembly in 1996, but later defected to the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Lin Cheng-hsiu (林正修), former 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 the 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 (Orchid Island).[16]
- Calvin Wen (溫炳原), a former secretary-general of the party, competed in the by-election in Daan District due to the resignation of Diane Lee in 2009.
- Rita Jhang (張竹芩), also known as Zukkim Zong and JhuCin Jhang, served as Secretary-General of Green Party Taiwan from 1 April 2020 to 31 May 2021.[17] She is the current president of the North American Taiwan Studies Association[18] and co-host of the feminist podcast Z Green Party (Z色派對).[19]
- Zoe Lee (李菁琪), current Secretary-General of Green Party Taiwan,[20] cannabis advocate and podcaster, and Taiwan's first "weed lawyer" whose law firm only takes on clients accused of cannabis-related crimes.[21]
See also
editNotes
editReferences
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{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ a b "Green Party Taiwan". Global Greens. 20 July 2014. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ 綠黨超越新黨 成小黨落選頭 Archived 18 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine. China Times (15 January 2012): 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. 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Green Party Taiwan issues list of legislative candidates". taipeitimes.com. 26 August 2015.
- ^ Fell, Dafydd; Peng, Yen-wen (29 January 2016). "The Electoral Fortunes of Taiwan's Green Party: 1996–2012". Japanese Journal of Political Science. 17 (1): 63–83. doi:10.1017/S1468109915000390. S2CID 154855947.
- ^ "Green Party Taiwan nominates high-profile psy..." Taiwan News. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ Staff, T. N. L. (10 January 2020). "Taiwan's 2020 General Elections: Live Map and Updates". The News Lens International Edition. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ 新竹市議會 (17 September 2020). "議員介紹". 無. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ Chung, Yu-chen (19 January 2024). "FEATURE/Taiwan's 1st transgender legislative candidate vows to continue activism". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ 聯合新聞網. "綠黨全台僅存議員 竹科工程師出身劉崇顯宣布退黨". 聯合新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Groups condemn rejection of appeal to return Dapu land to original owners – Taipei Times". taipeitimes.com. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ "詹順貴凝聚20年經驗作長梯 助小黨進國會 – 新頭殼 newtalk". newtalk.tw. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ 我為甚麼支持綠黨？ Archived 6 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Why do I support the Green Party?)
- ^ "Taiwan Today (2012) Tao Orchid Islanders continue fight for nuclear-free homeland". 14 March 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014.
- ^ "Home | 張竹芩博士 JhuCin Rita Jhang, PhD". JhuCin Rita Jhang. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "2022 Team Members". NATSA Website. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "【環境 X 大麻 X 李菁琪】". 綠黨 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 19 June 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "認識綠黨". web.greenparty.org.tw. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "Interview: Green is the colour for Taiwan's pioneering 'weed lawyer'". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 12 June 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- Dafydd Fell (2021) Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan. Routledge. ISBN 9780367650346