You Si-kun,also romanized Yu Shyi-kun,is a Taiwanese politician. He was one of the founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),and is known to be a strong advocate of Taiwan independence. He led the DPP as chairman from 2006 to 2007 and served as Premier from 2002 to 2005.
Chiu Yi is a former Kuomintang and People First Party legislator of the Republic of China (Taiwan) known for his pro-CCP unification views. He has also been a member of the New Party.
Freddy Lim Tshiong-tso is a Taiwanese politician,musician,and independence activist. He is the lead vocalist of the Taiwanese heavy-metal band Chthonic. and the lead vocalist of the band Metal Clone X started by him and American guitarist Marty Friedman. Lim served as chair of Amnesty International Taiwan from 2010 to 2014. He was one of the founding leaders of the New Power Party (NPP) in Taiwan and represented the party in the Legislative Yuan until 2019. Lim won a second legislative term as an independent in 2020.
Chen Chi-mai is a Taiwanese politician and the current Mayor of Kaoshiung since August 24,2020. He has served as spokesperson of the Democratic Progressive Party and the chief executive officer of its Policy Research and Coordinating Committee. A physician from Keelung,Chen started his political career by becoming member of the Legislative Yuan in 1996 and served as legislator for almost eight years before becoming the spokesperson of the Executive Yuan.
Su Jia-chyuan is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
The New Power Party (NPP) is a political party in Taiwan formed in early 2015. The party emerged from the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014,and advocates for universal human rights,civil and political liberties,as well as Taiwan independence/nationalism. The party is a part of the political phenomenon known as the "Third Force" (第三勢力),in which new political parties,unaligned with traditional Pan-Green or Pan-Blue Coalitions,sought to provide an alternative in Taiwanese politics. Nevertheless,the NPP's policies are very much aligned with and closely match the Pan-Green camp;thus the NPP cooperated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the 2016 elections,going as far as not to run in traditional KMT strongholds to avoid competition with the DPP. The party works in tandem with a perceived generational shift towards Taiwan-centrism as the new socio-cultural norm.
Huang Kuo-chang is a Taiwanese politician,activist,legal scholar,researcher and writer. He is one of the lead figures of the Sunflower Student Movement and joined the New Power Party shortly afterwards. He served as leader of the party from 2015 to 2019,and represented New Taipei City of Xizhi District in the Legislative Yuan on behalf of the NPP between 2016 and 2020. In 2023,he joined the Taiwan People's Party (TPP),and in the 2024 election he was elected to the Legislative Yuan on the TPP party list.
Hung Tzu-yung is a Taiwanese politician. Following the death of Hung Chung-chiu,her younger brother,in 2013,she joined the New Power Party upon its founding in 2015,and won election to the Legislative Yuan. Hung left the NPP in August 2019,partway through her first legislative term.
Kawlo Iyun Pacidal is a Taiwanese politician and former TV presenter. In January 2016 she was elected to serve in the Legislative Yuan as an at-large legislator on the party list of the New Power Party. Kawlo is a member of the Amis tribe of Taiwan's indigenous people and the cousin of singer Ilid Kaolo.
Johnny Chiang Chi-chen is a Taiwanese politician and former international political economy scholar. He served as an associate professor in Soochow University before his political career. He was the penultimate Director-General of the Government Information Office from 2010 to 2011,a post he resigned to become a member of the Legislative Yuan in which he has served since 2012. In March 2020,he was elected the Chairman of the Kuomintang and assumed office on 9 March until he was succeeded by Eric Chu on 5 October 2021.
By-elections for the Ninth Legislative Yuan were held in 2019,two on 27 January and four on 16 March,at Taiwan to elect 6 of the 113 members of the Legislative Yuan for the remaining term until 2020.
Chiu Hsien-chih is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. He contested the 2016 and 2020 legislative elections as a member of the New Power Party,winning the latter election. Chiu served as leader of the New Power Party between March and August 2019,and was reappointed to the role in an acting capacity in August 2020.
The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) is a centre-left political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was formally established on 6 August 2019 by Ko Wen-je,who serves as its first and current chairman. The party considers itself as an alternative third party to both the Democratic Progressive Party and Kuomintang.
Chen Po-wei is a Taiwanese politician. He was the first ever Taiwan Statebuilding Party candidate to be elected to the Legislative Yuan,defeating Kuomintang incumbent Yen Kuan-heng in the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election. In October 2021,Chen became the first member of the Legislative Yuan to lose his office via a successful recall election.
Claire Wang or Wang Wan-yu is a Taiwanese politician. Following the murder of her daughter in March 2016,Wang was named to the Presidential Office Organizing Committee for National Conferences on Judicial Reforms. She subsequently joined the New Power Party and won a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2020. Currently,she serves as NPP party chairperson since March of 2023.
Kao Yu-ting is a Taiwanese engineer and politician. She joined the New Power Party in 2015,served as party leader from August to November 2020.
Miao Poya (Chinese:苗博雅;pinyin:Miáo Bóyǎ;Wade–Giles:Miao2 Po2-ya3;born 2 October 1987) is a Taiwanese politician and activist for humanitarianism,anti-death penalty,social feminism,LGBT rights and Taiwanese independence,also known for being one of Taiwan's first-ever openly lesbian council members. She was elected as councillor representing Taipei City District 6 during the 2018 local elections.
A by-election was held on 9 January 2022 in Taichung to elect one member of the Legislative Yuan for the Taichung City Constituency II for the remaining term until 2024. Democratic Progressive Party legislator Lin Ching-yi won the by-election for Taichung 2 to replace Chen Po-wei,who was recalled on 23 October 2021.
Local elections were held in Taiwan on 26 November and 18 December 2022 to elect county magistrates,county (city) councilors,township mayors,township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. The election was held alongside the 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum.
By-elections for the Tenth Legislative Yuan were held in 2023,one each on 8 January and 4 March,in Taiwan to elect 2 of the 113 members of the Legislative Yuan for the remaining term until 2024. The Democratic Progressive Party flipped a seat from the Kuomintang in Nantou II,and the KMT retained its seat in Taipei III. After the DPP's victory in Nantou II,Frida Tsai would become the first DPP legislator to serve a district in Nantou County since the 2005 constitutional amendment halving the number of legislative seats from 225 to 113.
