Democratic Progressive Party Founded
民進黨成立
Source: Democratic Progressive Party
From: Taiwan Encyclopedia
Date: September 24, 2009. Author: Li Hsiao-feng
The first indigenous political party in postwar Taiwan. Founded on September 28, 1986, abbreviated DPP. Before its establishment, there was nearly twenty years of “tangwai” (outside the Kuomintang) democratic movement as a gestation period. In September 1983, tangwai figures formed the “Tangwai Central Support Committee” to support tangwai candidates’ election activities. In May 1984, they further established the “Tangwai Elected Officials’ Public Policy Research Association” (PPRA) as a standing organisation. On September 28, 1986, tangwai representatives convened a “Tangwai Central Support Committee” meeting at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, resolved to form a party, and more than 130 figures opposed to the KMT announced the establishment of the Democratic Progressive Party. Its core platform included: politically advocating democracy and freedom, implementing multiparty politics, and building a democratic and free legal-political order. In the 2000 presidential election, DPP candidates Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu won, making the DPP the governing party for the first time.
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- Thirty Years Ago: When the DPP and KMT Faced Off Party to Party for the First Time (People News)
- The DPP at 30: Reflecting on Shifts in Its Left-Wing Stance (Duowei TW)
- Taiwan’s Democracy 4.0 and an Introduction to the New Ruling Party (BBC Chinese)
- The “Secret Group of Ten” That Founded the DPP — 30th Anniversary Special Report (People News)
- Digging into History: How the DPP Became a “Taiwan Independence Party” (Duowei TW)
- History of the Democratic Progressive Party (Wikipedia)