One-side-one-country action party

一邊一國 行動 黨 Taiwan Action Party Alliance One-side-one-country action party
Party leader	Yang Qiwen (楊其文) (2019)
founding	18th August 2019
Place of foundation	Taipei , Taiwan
Alignment	Taiwan independence
Website	tapa.tw

The One-Side-One-Country Action Party ( Chinese  一邊一國 行動 黨 , Pinyin Yī Biān Yī Guó Xíngdòng Dǎng , English Taiwan Action Party Alliance , TAPA ) is a 2019 in the Republic of China (Taiwan) by ex-President Chen Shui -Bian founded small party .

history

On July 25, 2019, ex-President Chen Shui-bian, then 68, announced in a Facebook message that he intended to found a new party to campaign for Taiwan's independence. Chen, who until then was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was sentenced to 19 years in prison for corruption after his presidency ended in 2008, but was given medical parole in 2015 . Since then he had not been active in party politics. The name of the new party was derived from the slogan 一邊一國 , Yī Biān Yī Guó  - " One side, one country ", which was coined by Chen during his presidency and which was intended to express that the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are two different states. On August 18, 2019, the party held its inaugural meeting in Taipei and elected Yang Qiwen (楊其文), a professor of arts and architecture, as its first chairman. Chen Shui-bian did not attend the party's inaugural meeting, nor did he get elected to office, as doing so would violate the conditions under which he was released from detention. A video message from Chen was shown at the founding meeting and Yang referred to Chen as the "spiritual leader of the party." The proclaimed main political goal of the new party was to make Taiwan a "normal and independent state". This also includes changing the state name from the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan . The party announced that it wanted to win at least 5 percent of the vote in the upcoming election of the legislative yuan .

Ex-Vice President Annette Lu and Ex-Prime Minister Yu Shyi-kun (both DPP) were also present at the founding event of TAPA, both of whom expressed their sympathy for the goal of independence, but did not join the new party. On November 20, 2019, Chen was nominated by TAPA for a place on the list in the Legislative Yuan election. As a result, the Central Election Commission announced that it would review the legality of the nomination, as prisoners would not be allowed to be registered as candidates. On December 13, 2019, the Central Election Commission finally declared Chen's participation as a candidate in the election to be impossible.

Individual evidence

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