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 The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist and centre-left political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Controlling both the Republic of China presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan, it is the majorit ...

(DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP),

Taiwan Solidarity Union 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- ...

(TSU),

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(SDP),

Green Party Taiwan Green Party Taiwan is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwan nationalism and shares a number of centre-left positions with the Pan-Green Coalition, the party emphasizes campa ...

, and Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA). The platform of the

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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

, which originally adopted green in part because of its association with the

anti-nuclear movement The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, natio ...

. 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 You ...

, 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

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. 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 Ta ...

(KMT). However, due to the controversies and the alleged corruption cases involving the former DPP nominated President

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, 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

Lee Teng-hui Lee Teng-hui (; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and economist who served as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under Constitution of the Republic of China, the 1947 C ...

was expelled from the

and created his own party, the

, 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

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

Member parties

Current members

Former members

Legislative strength

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Media

* ''

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'' * '' Apple Daily (Taiwan)'' * ''

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References

External links

Taipei Times editorial on the colored alliances
Centre-left politics Identity politics in Taiwan Political organizations based in Taiwan Progressivism in Taiwan Taiwan independence movement Taiwanese nationalism {{Taiwan-org-stub