Impartial Solidarity Union

無 黨 團結 聯盟 Wúdǎng Tuánjié Liánméng Impartial Solidarity Union
Party leader	Lin Pin-kuan (林炳坤)
founding	June 15, 2004
Headquarters	Taipei Taiwan
Alignment	Central politics apart from the big camps, liberal-conservative
Colours)	Purple / gray
Parliament seats	0/113
Website	Facebook site

The Impartial Solidarity Union ( Chinese  無 黨 團結 聯盟 , Pinyin Wúdǎng Tuánjié Liánméng , English Non-Partisan Solidarity Union , NPSU ) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan .

Party history

The party was founded on June 15, 2004 by 10 members of parliament (6 non-party members, 2 members of the Kuomintang , one member of the Xindang and one member of the DPP ) in Taiwan. Programmatically, the “impartial party” wanted to position itself outside the traditional political camps of the pan-blue and pan-green coalitions and saw itself as an advocate for the underprivileged. At first she did not take a position on the question of Taiwan's independence or the relationship with the People's Republic of China . The first party chairman was former Minister of Health and Interior Chang Po-ya , later followed by Lin Pin-kuan . The NPSU's political weight has never been particularly great and has steadily decreased since its inception. After the election for the legislative yuan in 2016 , one elected NPSU MP joined the conservative Qinmindang faction .

In the 2020 legislative yuan election , the party no longer put forward its own candidates and supported the Kuomintang candidate in the 2020 presidential election, which is taking place in parallel .

Legislative yuan election results so far

choice	Won seats	modification	Total votes	Votes in percent	Result	Top candidate
2004	6 of 225	-	353.164	3.86%	in opposition	Chang Po-ya
2008	3 of 113	▼ 3	239.317	2.4%	in opposition	Lin Pin-kuan
2012	1 of 113	▼ 2	148.105	1.12%	in opposition	Lin Pin-kuan
2016	1 of 113	▬	77,672	0.64%	in opposition	Lin Pin-kuan
2020	0 of 113	▼ 1	no participation	no participation	not represented in parliament	Lin Pin-kuan

Web links

• NPSU website (Chinese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cody Yiu: Legislator says new party should not be recognized. Taipei Times, accessed January 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Political Parties. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on April 23, 2010, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; accessed on December 18, 2015 . 
3. ^ Perry Santos: The local Taiwanese politician: highlighting the urban / rural divide. (PDF) March 31, 2006, accessed on December 28, 2015 (English, paper, presented at the 3rd Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) , Paris, March 30–31 , 2006). 
4. ↑ Jonathan Sullivan, James Smyth: Taiwan's 2016 Presidential and Legislative Elections . In: Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies . tape December 6 , 2016, ISSN  2048-0601 (English, pdf ).
5. ↑ Filip Noubel: Taiwan's 2020 presidential elections: who are the contenders? Hong Kong Free Press, January 4, 2020, accessed January 18, 2020 .