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The Xindang party office in Taipei

The Xindang (Chinese New party , Pinyin Xīnang , English New Party – “new party”, formerly Chinese Chinese New Party , Pinyin Zhō Xua Xinh – “Chinese new party”) is a political party of the conservative spectrum in the Republic of China on Taiwan.

The party was founded on August 10, 1993 as a split from Kuomintang (KMT). The founders also included 6 former Kuomintang parliamentarians in the legislative youan elected in 1992. [first] The cause of the split was dissatisfaction with the KMT chairman and president of the Republic of China Lee Teng-Hui. This was accused of authoritarian behavior and he was suspected of secretly wanting to give up the goal of the reunification of mainland China with Taiwan. In addition, one criticism was the alleged internal party corruption in the KMT.
In the 1990s, the Xindang got influx of dissatisfied KMT supporters. In the presidential election in 2000, the Xindang with Li AO set up its own candidate, which reached 0.13% of the votes. In the election to the legislative Yuan in 1995, she reached her best result with 21 (12.8%) of 164 Sitting, after which her relative share of voices dropped in the following parliamentary elections. In the election to the legislative Yuan in 2012, the party was no longer able to win a direct mandate and the party practically slipped into political insignificance.

On November 27, 2012, the Xindang announced its exit from the KMT-led Pan-Blauen coalition, which had previously belonged to the Xindang. [2] The party leader Yok Mu-Ming (郁慕明) said that the Xindang has so far supported the KMT to prevent the takeover of power by the parties of the Pan-Green coalition. In view of Taiwan’s hinge economic development, it is now time to join the blue-green confrontation course. In the future, the Xindang wants to pursue a more independent policy by KMT. This decision certainly played a role that the Xindang, despite the support of the KMT candidate Ma Ying-Jeou, was not involved in the then formed government in the 2012 presidential election and parliamentary election in 2012.

On August 22, 2015, Xindang party leader YOK Mu-Ming called up his party supporters again to choose Kuomintang candidates in the upcoming election of the legislative Yuan in 2016 in the direct election of the constituency candidates to prevent the DPP victory. [3] The Xindang only ran for the 34 parliamentary seats that are awarded via the state list, but failed there with 4.18% of the votes.

Legislative-yuan [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Choice Seats obtained the change Total vote Vote in percent Result Top candidate
1995 21 1.222.931 13.0% In the opposition Chen Kuei-Miao
1998 ten 708.465 7.1% In the opposition Chou yang-shan
2001 8 269,620 2.9% Part of the pan-blue government coalition No mu-mink
2004 12.137 0.13% Part of the pan-blue government coalition No mu-mink
2008 first 199.402 3.53% Part of the pan-blue government coalition No mu-mink
2012 2 10.678 0.08% not represented in the legislative yuan No mu-mink
2016 510.074 4.18% not represented in the legislative yuan No mu-mink
2020 147.373 1.04% not represented in the legislative yuan No mu-mink

National assembly [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Choice Seats obtained the change Total vote Vote in percent
1996 forty six 1.425.896 13.7%
2005 43 34.253 0.88%
  1. ↑ Taiwan Communiqué: Elections for the Legislative Yuan. (PDF) International Committee for Human Rights in Taiwan, September 1993, accessed on November 18, 2016 (English, issue no. 59).
  2. ↑ New Party breaks away from pan-blue coalition. The China Post, 27. November 2012, accessed on December 26, 2012 (English).
  3. ↑ New Party throws weight behind KMT in legislative election. Focus Taiwan, 22. August 2015, Retrieved on December 13, 2015 (English).