The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) is a political party in Taiwan which advocates Taiwan independence,and is affiliated with the Taiwanese localization movement. It was officially founded on 12 August 2001 and is considered part of the Pan-Green Coalition. Unlike the Democratic Progressive Party,its larger companion party in the Pan-Green Coalition,the TSU actively campaigns for the creation of a de jure Republic of Taiwan. The future of the party is in doubt after the 2016 elections as the party failed to secure enough votes to be eligible for state funding.
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.
Kiku Chen Chu is a Taiwanese politician serving as president of the Control Yuan and chairwomen of the National Human Rights Commission since 2020. Before assuming her current post,Chen had served as Secretary-General to the President from 2018 to 2020 and Mayor of Kaohsiung from 2006 to 2018,making her the longest-serving mayor of the city since the Japanese occupation of Taiwan.
National Defense Medical Center is a ROC military affiliated medical school in Taipei,Taiwan. The NDMC is responsible for the training of military doctors,nurses and other medical personnel.
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 Kaohsiung 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).
Lin Chih-chien is a Taiwanese politician. He was the mayor of Hsinchu City from 25 December 2014 to 8 July 2022.
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.
Chien Tung-ming was a Taiwanese politician. Also known by the Paiwan-language name Uliw Qaljupayare,he represented the Highland Aborigine district for the Kuomintang from 2008 to 2020 at the Legislative Yuan.
Frida Tsai is a Taiwanese activist and politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020,contested the Nantou County magistracy later that year,and in 2023,was reelected to the Legislative Yuan. She lost election the following year to Yu Hao.
Huang Jong-tsun is a Taiwanese politician and psychologist who serves as the current President of the Examination Yuan. Prior to assuming his current role,Huang had served as President of China Medical University from 2005 to 2014 and Minister of Education from 2002 and 2004. He is the first President of the Examination Yuan not affiliated with any political party.
Kolas Yotaka is an Amis Taiwanese politician and journalist. From 2020 to 2022 and again in 2023,she served as spokesperson for the Office of the President under Tsai Ing-wen. Kolas previously served as spokesperson for the Executive Yuan in 2018,the first Taiwanese aboriginal to hold the position.
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.
Tsay Chung-han is a Taiwanese Amis politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 2005.
Peter Lin or Lin Chin-hsing is a Taiwanese physician and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008,and faced legal action throughout his time in office,which twice led to his expulsion from the Democratic Progressive Party. Lin was a DPP candidate for Kaohsiung City Council in the 2014 Taiwanese local elections,but was not elected.
The 2015 Taiwanese legislative by-elections were held on 7 February 2015 in Taiwan to elect 5 of the 113 members of the Legislative Yuan for the remaining term until 2016. No change in the party composition of the Legislative Yuan resulted from the by-elections;three Democratic Progressive Party candidates won the seats vacated by DPP legislators,and two Kuomintang candidates won the seats vacated by KMT legislators.
Lin Kun-hai was a Taiwanese program producer and entrepreneur,co-founder and chairman of Sanlih E-Television.
Wang Hung-wei is a Taiwanese politician affiliated with the Kuomintang,who has served in the Legislative Yuan representing Taipei City Constituency III since 2023. She is the deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang legislative caucus.
Jonathan Lin is a Taiwanese politician.
