The pan-Green coalition, pan-Green force or pan-Green groups is a nationalist political coalition in

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(Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),

Taiwan Statebuilding Party The Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP; zh, t=台灣基進, p=Táiwān Jījìn, poj=Tâi-oân Ki-chìn) is a political party in Taiwan. The party was established in 2016 as Taiwan Radical Wings. The party is considered a close ally of the Democrat ...

(TSP), Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Green Party Taiwan, and

Taiwan Constitution Association The Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA; ) is a Taiwanese political party affiliated with the Pan-Green Coalition. History The party was founded on 8 November 2007. See also * List of political parties in the Republic of China This articl ...

(TCA). The platform of the New Power Party is also very closely aligned with all the other Pan-Green parties.超越藍綠？台灣社運型政黨前進立法院
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History

The name comes from the colours of the Democratic Progressive Party, which originally adopted green in part because of its association with the

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. In contrast to the

Pan-Blue Coalition The pan-Blue coalition, pan-Blue force or pan-Blue groups is a political coalition in the Republic of China (Taiwan) consisting of the Kuomintang (KMT), People First Party (PFP), New Party (CNP), Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU), and Yo ...

, the Pan-Green Coalition favors Taiwanization and

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over

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, although members in both coalitions have moderated their policies to reach voters in the center. This strategy is helped by the fact that much of the motivation that voters have for voting for one party or the other are for reasons that have nothing to do with relations with China. This is particularly true among swing voters. For much of the 1990s, the parties which later formed the Pan-Green Coalition greatly benefited because they were less corrupt than the ruling

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

(KMT). However, due to the controversies and the alleged corruption cases involving the former DPP nominated President Chen Shui-bian, the public perception of the Coalition is seemed to have been altered somewhat. The Pan-Green Coalition formed in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, after which

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was expelled from the

and created his own party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which maintains a pro-independence platform. The internal dynamics of the Pan-Green Coalition are different from those of the Pan-Blue coalition. Unlike the Pan-Blue coalition, which consists of relatively equal-sized parties with very similar ideologies, the pan-green coalition contains the DPP, which is much larger and more moderate than the TSU. So rather than coordinating electoral strategies, as in the case of the parties within the Pan-Blue coalition, the presence of the TSU keeps the DPP from moving too far away from its

roots. In local elections, competition tends to be fierce between Pan-Green candidates from different parties, and as a rule, joint candidates are not proposed. The Green Party Taiwan is not to be considered as part of the Pan-Green Coalition; however, the Green Party has similar views with the Democratic Progressive Party, especially on environmental and social issues, and the Green Party are also allied with Social Democratic Party.

Member parties

Current members

Former members

Legislative strength

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Media

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'' * '' Sanlih E-Television''

References

External links

Taipei Times editorial on the colored alliances
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