Minkuotang

民國 黨 Minkuotang Republican Party
founding	March 13, 2015
fusion	January 25, 2019 (incorporated in: Congress Party Alliance )
Alignment	conservatism
Colours)	yellow

The Minkuotang ( MKT ; Chinese  民國 黨 , Pinyin Mínguódǎng ; "Republican Party") is a former political party in the Republic of China in Taiwan . The party was founded on March 13, 2015 by former Kuomintang MP Hsu Hsin-ying . Politically, it belongs to the conservative spectrum. The party held its founding meeting on March 18, 2015. On January 25, 2019, the party went into the Congress Party Alliance ( 國會 政黨 聯盟 ).

history

The party founder and first chairwoman is Hsu Hsin-ying (徐欣瑩), who was elected to the Kuomintang (KMT) in Hsinchu in the 2012 election of the Legislative Yuan . At the time, she was the candidate with the highest number of votes in the country. On January 28, 2015, she announced her departure from the KMT and later announced the founding of her own party. On the occasion of the foundation, she declared that she wanted to create a “third force” alongside the KMT and DPP in order to “achieve what the public expects of her”. Concrete statements on content positioning, especially in contrast to the Kuomintang, have not yet become known.

In November 2015, James Soong , one of the presidential candidates in the upcoming 2016 presidential election, elected Hsu as his candidate for the vice presidency. The duo Soong-Hsu achieved a respectable success in the election on January 16, 2016 with 12.84% of the vote. In the legislative yuan election on the same day , the MKT put forward its own candidates in four of the 73 constituencies. In Hsinchu County , Hsu Hsin-ying ran, and three other MKT supporters ran in one of the constituencies of Miaoli County , the cities of Taipei and New Taipei . None of the candidates were successful and Chairwoman Hsu Hsin-ying lost her previous seat in parliament. In the nationwide election, the MKT achieved 197,627 votes (1.62%) and thus landed well below the 5% hurdle that must be overcome in order to be eligible for the legislative yuan.

On January 25, 2019, the party merged with other political groups to form the newly formed Congress Party Alliance .

Web links

• Minkuotang website (Chinese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taiwan News Encyclopedia: Minkuotang. Radio Taiwan International, November 21, 2015, accessed December 28, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Chang Wen-sheng: Minkuotang conference akin to a tent revival. March 20, 2015, accessed December 28, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} 九合一 大選 失利 民國 黨 宣布 ： 與 妙 天 合併 政黨 (Election defeat in the nine holidays: Republican party announces merger with Miaotian party). January 2, 2019, accessed January 23, 2020 (Traditional Chinese). 
4. ↑ KMT legislator Hsu Hsin-jung quits party. Taiwan News, January 28, 2015, accessed December 28, 2015 . 
5. ^ New party established. Taipei Times, March 19, 2015, accessed December 28, 2015 . 
6. ^ Abraham Gerber: MKT announces partial slate for legislative polls. Taipei Times, October 11, 2015, accessed January 22, 2016 .