Green Party Taiwan

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:More citations needed Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox political party Template:Infobox Chinese Green Party TaiwanTemplate:Efn native lang is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwanese nationalism and shares a number of centre-left positions with the Pan-Green Coalition, the party emphasizes campaigning primarily on social and environmental issues. The party is not a member of, and should not be confused with, the Pan-Green Coalition. Green Party Taiwan is a member of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation and participates in the Global Greens.

Much of the 400-strong membership are affiliated with the non-governmental organisation sector of Taiwanese society, as well as from academia and the youth community.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>

Electoral history

In 1996, Green Party Taiwan’s Kao Meng-ting was elected to the National Assembly. However, he left the party in 1997.

In the 2008 legislative election, the Green Party of Taiwan formed a red-green coalition with a labour-led organization Raging Citizens Act Now! (人民火大行動聯盟), but failed to win any seats.

In the 2012 legislative election, Green Party Taiwan garnered 1.7% of the party vote. While still far short of the 5% threshold to win a seat in the legislature, this makes it the largest extraparliamentary party in Taiwan.<ref>綠黨超越新黨成小黨落選頭 Template:Webarchive. China Times (15 January 2012): Greens surpassing the New Party to be the largest extraparliamentary party.</ref> Its best showing is in Orchid Island, where Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage facility is located. There, the party collected 35.76% of the party votes due to its strong anti-nuclear stance.

In the 2014 local elections, the party won two seats. Wang Hao-yu was elected to the Taoyuan City Council, and Jay Chou was elected to the Hsinchu County Council.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In the 2016 general election, the party ran in a coalition with the newly founded centre-left Social Democratic Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and fielded candidates in both constituency races and the nationwide party ballot.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The coalition garnered 2.5% of the party vote without winning any seats.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In the 2020 legislative election, the Green Party nominated five young professionals, including famed psychologist Cheng Hui-wen and party founder Kao Cheng-yan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They got 2.4% of the votes and did not win any seats. They were the second largest party that didn’t win a seat.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In the 2022 local election, the party won only one seat. Template:Ill was elected to the Hsinchu City Council.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Green Party nominated Taiwan's first transgender legislative candidate, Abbygail ET Wu (吳伊婷), in the 2024 election cycle. The party won 117,298 votes (0.85%), not enough to seat any candidate named on the Green Party list.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On March 30, 2024, Liu Chong-hsian resigned from the party.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This leaves the party with no members holding public office.

The Green Party averages around 3% of total votes cast in metropolitan urban areas, with support in rural areas, such as Orchid Island, as high as 35.8%.<ref name=":0" />

Election	Mayors & Magistrates	Councils	Third-level Municipal heads	Third-level Municipal councils	Fourth-level Village heads	Election Leader
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2022 Template:Small	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Yu Hsiao-ching

List of chairpersons

Kao Cheng-yan (Template:Lang), 1996–1997 and 2003–2004 Chair. Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University; Green Party Taiwan's founding chair; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 1998 and 2001.
Shin-Min Shih (Template:Lang), 1998 Chair. Professor of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University; President of the Institute of Environment and Resource; former Director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union;
Kuang-Yu Chen (Template:Lang), 1999–2000 Chair. candidate for the Taipei City Council in 1998.
Ayo Cheng (Template:Lang), 2001–2002 Chair. Dean of College of Environment and Ecology at National University of Tainan; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union.
Yen-Wen Peng (Template:Lang), 2005 Chair. Assistant professor of Public Administration and Management at Shih Hsin University; candidate for the Taipei City Council in 1998.
Sam Lin (Template:Lang), 2006 Co-chair. Former Chair of Taiwan Ecology Conservation Union.
Jolan Hsieh (Template:Lang), 2006 Co-chair. Assistant professor of Indigenous Culture at National Dong Hwa University.
Mary Chen (Template:Lang), 2007 Co-chair. Former president of the Homemakers' Union and Foundation; former president of the National Union of Taiwan Women Association; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2008. Elected to the legislature in 2016 after joining the Democratic Progressive Party.
Hung Hui-hsiang (Template:Lang), 2007 Co-chair. President of Pingtung Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2004.
Chung Pao-chu (Template:Lang), 2008–2009 Co-chair. President of Hualien Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Hualien County Councilor in 1998, 2002.
Leo Chang (Template:Lang), 2008–2009 Co-chair. Secretary-General of the Taiwan NPO Self-Regulation Alliance; former Secretary-General of the Society of Wildness; candidate for the Taipei City Council in 2006.
Gelinda Chang,Template:Citation needed co-chair for 2011; educator.
Robin Winkler, co-chair for 2011 and 2012; lawyer and founder of Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association; naturalised Taiwanese citizen.
Karen Yu (Template:Lang), co-chair from 2012 to 2015; social entrepreneur and co-founder of OKOGreen café, a fair trade coffee shop. Elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016 as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
Ken-cheng Lee (Template:Lang), co-chair from 2013 to 2017; artist, educator and founder of Citizen of the Earth Taiwan, an environmental organisation.
Chang Yu-ching (Template:Lang), co-chair from 2015 to 2017; environmental activist.Template:Citation needed

Notable persons

Linda Gail Arrigo, international affairs officer for the party; ex-wife of Shih Ming-teh.
Thomas Chan (詹順貴),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> at-large candidate for the legislature in the 2016 election.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Although not elected, he was later appointed as Deputy Minister for the Environmental Protection Administration in the first cabinet of the Tsai Ing-wen administration led by Premier Lin Chuan.
Peter Huang (黃文雄), notable for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Chiang Ching-kuo in 1970; former National Policy Advisor on human rights issues to the President of the Republic of China; avid supporter of the party since it was founded.<ref>我為甚麼支持綠黨？ Template:Webarchive (Why do I support the Green Party?)</ref>
Pan Han-chiang (潘翰疆), member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the party, 1999; former deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union. He split from Green Party Taiwan in 2014 to form the Trees Party.
Kao Meng-ting (高孟定), who won a seat in Yunlin County for Green Party Taiwan in the National Assembly in 1996, but later defected to the Democratic Progressive Party.
Lin Cheng-hsiu (林正修), former Research, Development and Evaluation Commission Director, Taipei City (apparently the only party member holding a public office in 2004); he ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the 2004 legislative election. In 2007, Lin was a campaign manager for the Pan-Blue Coalition's presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou.
Sinan Mavivo (希婻‧瑪飛洑; 賴美惠), the top candidate of the Green Party Taiwan list in the legislative election 2012, is an anti-nuclear campaigner. She is of the Tao people from Pongso no Tao (Orchid Island).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Calvin Wen (溫炳原), a former secretary-general of the party, competed in the by-election in Daan District due to the resignation of Diane Lee in 2009.
Rita Jhang (張竹芩), also known as Zukkim Zong and JhuCin Jhang, served as Secretary-General of Green Party Taiwan from 1 April 2020 to 31 May 2021.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She is the current president of the North American Taiwan Studies Association<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and co-host of the feminist podcast Z Green Party (Z色派對).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Zoe Lee (李菁琪), current Secretary-General of Green Party Taiwan,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> cannabis advocate and podcaster, and Taiwan's first "weed lawyer" whose law firm only takes on clients accused of cannabis-related crimes.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Notes

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References

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Dafydd Fell (2021) Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan. Routledge. Template:ISBN

External links

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