Taiwan People's Party

台灣民眾黨 Taiwan People's Party Taiwanese People's Party
Party leader	Ko Wen-je (2019)
founding	August 6, 2019
Place of foundation	Taipei , Taiwan
Alignment	Fight against party politics and corruption for a technocracy
Colours)	turquoise and white
Parliament seats	5/113
Website	www.tpp.org.tw

Party founded on August 6, 2019

The Taiwan People's Party ( TPP , Chinese  台灣 民眾 黨 , Pinyin Táiwān Mínzhòng Dǎng , English Taiwan People's Party ) is a political party founded in 2019 in the Republic of China in Taiwan .

history

On August 1, 2019, the incumbent non-party mayor of Taipei, Ko Wen-je , declared that he had registered a political party with the term “Taiwan” in its name and based on the people of Taiwan. The Chinese name of the party 台灣 民眾 黨 was identical to the name of a party founded on July 10, 1927 in Taiwan and dissolved in 1933. This party was founded at the time of the Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan by the independence activist Chiang Wei-shui (蔣 渭水), whom Ko described as his role model. The founding convention of Kos party took place on August 6, 2019 (which happened to be both Kos 60th birthday and Chiang's 129th birthday) in the assembly hall of the University Hospital of Taiwan National University in Taipei (where the party founder had previously worked as a surgeon). At the founding event, the name Taiwan People's Party was chosen as the official English translation of the Chinese party name .

With regard to the political program, Ko announced that the new party would concentrate on the professionalization of politics, be guided by the will of the population and be hardworking and incorruptible. In response to criticism that his party did not have a clear program and that there was no “basic party ideology”, Ko replied that his goals were aimed at “the greatest overall benefit for Taiwan” and its people. In the past, political decisions were mostly made by technocrats. This has changed since around the year 2000, after which the entire state apparatus was increasingly destroyed by sudden, party-politically motivated decisions without the involvement of experts.

Ko rejected the so-called consensus of 1992 favored by the Kuomintang (KMT) , but also praised individual KMT economic experts from the past, such as Lee Kuo-ting (李國鼎) and Sun Yun-suan , and criticized the supposed waste of money by the DPP government . These have almost overnight the $ 10 billion NT (€ 290 million) expensive Shenao Power Station in Ruifang shelved down. The government official justification that Taiwan's energy supply is sufficient, Ko called "ridiculous". Regarding the environmental arguments, Ko said it wasn't the coal itself that was dirty, but the people who used it.

On November 20, 2019, party leader Ko criticized leading independence activists for loudly advocating Taiwan, but also letting their children grow up abroad, where, for example, they did not do military service.

Shortly after the official launch of the party's website on September 15, 2019, it was the victim of a hacker attack and had to be taken offline. Previously, around 1,500 people had registered as new party members on the site.

TPP officials said the party's goal is to win 10 seats in the upcoming legislative yuan election. On September 18, 2019, Ko stated that he would not run as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election .

In the election of the Legislative Yuan on January 11, 2020 , the TPP received 11.22% of the vote, making it the third largest party in terms of votes.

Web links

Commons : Taiwan People's Party  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Liang Pei-chi, Evelyn Kao: Taipei mayor says his party will give voters more choices. Focus Taiwan, August 1, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Lee I-chia: Co-elected chairman at TPP founding. Taipei Times, August 7, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019 . 
3. ^ Chen Ching-min, William Hetherington: Ko launches 'Taiwan people's party'. Taipei Times, August 2, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Huang Tzu-ti: Taipei Mayor Ko slams pro-independence figures for fake love towards Taiwan: Ko Wen-je harshly criticized children of pro-independence politicians for 'hiding out' overseas. Taiwan News, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Huang Tzu-ti: Taiwan People's Party website hacked in cyberattack Perpetrators targeted website's member recruitment system. Taiwan News, September 16, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Lee I-chia: Ko also decides not to run for president. Taipei Times, September 18, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .