Democratic Progressive Party
The Democratic Progressive Party and the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP) (Chinese民主 进步 党, Pinyin Mínzhǔ Jinbu Dǎng, short民进党Chinese, Pinyin Mínjìndǎng ) is a party in the Republic of China on Taiwan. The party was founded as an opposition to the Kuomintang turned from 2000 to 2008 with Chen Shui -bian to the President of the Republic of China. In the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012, the DPP candidate Hsieh Chang- ting ( 2008) and Tsai Ing -wen subject (2012 ) against Ma Ying- jeou of the Kuomintang.
History
The DPP was founded in September 1986 from the opposition movement Dangwai out against the existing party ban. In the same year she took ( as an illegal party ) to the national supplementary elections to the National Assembly and Legislative Yuan in part and gained thereby a moderate success.
The Dangwai emerged in the 1970s, as from 1972 regular additional elections were conducted. This supplementary elections led the opposition political stage. After the initial successes in the elections in 1977, the Dangwai moving toward institutionalization in the form of a party establishment. In light of the closure of the U.S. embassy in Taipei 1979, the government suspended the upcoming 1979 elections addition, after which there was a radicalization of Dangwai movement and the Kaohsiung Incident. Kaohsiung is after the capital Taipei is the second largest city in Taiwan.
Subsequently, many opposition leaders were jailed, including the later Vice -President of the Republic of China, Lu Xiulian. The call for political reform from Washington, the disclosure of numerous human rights violations by the government in Taipei and the prestige associated loss made it the government, however, impossible to prevent stabilization of Dangwai in the 80s. As part of the latest from 1986 incipient democratization process in Taiwan then the DPP, which was legalized in the late 1980s formed. In the 1990s, she won numerous electoral successes and made from May 2000 to May 2008 with Chen Shui -bian for the first time the President. In contrast to much of the Kuomintang it occurs mainly for Taiwan independence in the form of a new, different from the Republic of China State a.