The Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP; Chinese: 台灣基進; pinyin: Táiwān Jījìn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Ki-chìn) is a political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). The party was established in 2016 as Taiwan Radical Wings.[4] The party is considered a rather close ally of the DPP,[10] while fighting to replace opposition parties whom TSP unilaterally claims as “not loyal to Taiwan”,[11] such as Kuomintang and TPP. In Taiwan’s 2024 Legislative Election, TSP failed to gain any seat in the Legislative Yuan and lost its status as a national political party.
Taiwan Statebuilding Party 台灣基進 | |
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Chairperson | Chen Yi-chi |
Secretary | Wang Hsing-huan |
Founded | 15 May 2016 |
Headquarters | Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Ideology | |
Political position | Big tent[6] |
National affiliation | Pan-Green Coalition[9] |
Colours | Fire Brick |
Legislative Yuan | 0 / 113 |
Municipal mayors | 0 / 6 |
Magistrates/mayors | 0 / 16 |
Councilors | 2 / 912 |
Township/city mayors | 0 / 204 |
Website | |
https://statebuilding.tw/ | |
As of 2018, the chairperson was Chen Yi-chi.[12]
In the 2020 legislative elections in Taiwan, the party won one seat, with Chen Po-wei becoming its first member of the Legislative Yuan.[13]
In October 2021, Chen became the first member of the Legislative Yuan to be successfully recalled, ending his term less than two years into office.[14] Votes for Chen's recall numbered 77,899, against 73,433 opposing his recall. Votes supporting the recall topped 25% of the eligible electorate (73,744), with 51.72 percent voter turnout.[15] Per Article 92 of the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act , Chen will be ineligible to run for the Legislative Yuan in Taichung's second district for the next four years.[16] On 28 October 2021, he was officially dismissed from the Legislative Yuan.[17]
TSP was once described as a left-wing,[18] progressive[2] and pro-independence party.[1]
Election | Total seats won | Total votes | Share of votes | Changes | Party leader | Status | President |
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2020 | 1 / 113
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447,286 | 3.16% | 1 seat | Chen Yi-chi | 5th Party | Tsai Ing-wen |
2024 | 0 / 113
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95,078 | 0.69% | 0 seat | Chen Yi-chi | Did not represent | Lai Ching-te |
Election | Magistrates and mayors | Councillors | Township/city mayors | Township/city council representatives | Village chiefs | Party leader |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 unified |
0 / 22
|
0 / 912
|
0 / 204
|
1 / 2,148
|
0 / 7,744
|
Chen Yi-chi |
2022 unified |
0 / 22
|
2 / 910
|
0 / 204
|
0 / 2,139
|
0 / 7,748
|
Chen Yi-chi |
Besides supporting Taiwan independence, the TSP regards itself as a left-wing party that promotes social equality and admires the social welfare systems of northern European countries.
But the implementation of 18 national languages in official settings has not gone smoothly. In late September, a conversation between Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng and the progressive Taiwan Statebuilding Party's only elected lawmaker, Chen Po-wei, became heated after Chen requested the use of an interpreter so he could speak in Taigí, his mother tongue.
Besides supporting Taiwan independence, the TSP regards itself as a left-wing party that promotes social equality and admires the social welfare systems of northern European countries.
Lin Yu-ming of the left-wing, pro-independence Taiwan State Building Party said that China is increasingly seeking to inflence the democratic island's 23 million residents ahead of presidential elections in 2020, at which Tsai is seeking re-election.
而基進黨在光譜上常被時為極右派政黨[...]
Lin Yu-ming of the left-wing, pro-independence Taiwan State Building Party said that China is increasingly seeking to inflence the democratic island's 23 million residents ahead of presidential elections in 2020, at which Tsai is seeking re-election.