Pan-Blue Coalition

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Pan-Blue Coalition
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The pan-Blue coalition, pan-Blue force or pan-Blue groups is a

New Party (CNP), Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU), and Young China Party
(YCP). The name comes from the party color of the Kuomintang.

Regarding the political status of Taiwan, this coalition maintains that the Republic of China instead of the People's Republic of China is the legitimate government of China, favors a Chinese and Taiwanese dual identity over an exclusive Taiwanese identity, and favors greater friendly exchange with Mainland China, as opposed to the Pan-Green Coalition.

Political stance

The Pan-Blue Coalition's political stance can be characterized as centre-right,[2] conservatism and Republic of China-centered Chinese nationalism.

Originally, the Pan-Blue Coalition was associated with Chinese unification, but has moved towards a more conservative position supporting the present status quo, while rejecting immediate unification with mainland China. It now argues that reunification is possible only after the communist regime in mainland China collapses or transitions to a democracy either as a new democratic government or with the re-establishment of Sun Yat-sen's Republic of China government which fled to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War. This would also allow the body of Chiang Kai-shek to be returned to his ancestral home in Xikou.[citation needed]

History

Lee Teng-hui presidency: 1988–2000

Throughout the 1990s, the Kuomintang (KMT) consisted of an uneasy relationship between those party members who had mainland China backgrounds (came from mainland China in 1949) and Taiwanese political elites, Taiwanese factions led by President

New Party was formed by the anti-Lee dissidents in the KMT. After the dissidents of KMT members left, the KMT remained loyal and with control by President Lee Teng-hui throughout his presidency.[citation needed
]

During the

People First Party after both he and Lien were defeated by Chen Shui-bian in the presidential elections. Though Chen and the DPP won the presidency, pro-KMT lawmakers held 140 out of 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan. Soong and Lien later formed a coalition in opposition to the DPP minority government.[citation needed
]

First time in opposition: 2000–2008

In the 2000 presidential election itself, the split in Kuomintang votes between Soong and Lien led in part to the election of Chen Shui-bian. After the election, there was widespread anger within the Kuomintang against Lee Teng-hui, who was expelled for forming his own pro-

Taiwan independence party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union.[3] After Lee's expulsion, the Kuomintang moved its policies back to a more conservative one and began informal but close cooperation with the People First Party and the New Party. This coalition became informally known as the Pan-Blue Coalition. Although the members of the Pan-Blue Coalition maintain separate party structures, they closely cooperate in large part to ensure that electoral strategies are coordinated, so that votes are not split among them leading to a victory by the Pan-Green Coalition.[citation needed
]

The KMT and PFP ran a combined ticket in the

2004 presidential elections with Lien Chan running for president and James Soong running for vice president. The campaign emblem for the Lien-Soong campaign was a two-seat bicycle with a blue (the color of the KMT) figure in the first seat and an orange (the color of the PFP) figure in the second.[citation needed
]

There were talks in late 2004 that the KMT and the PFP would merge into one party in 2005, but these talks have been put on hold. In the

2004 legislative election the three parties from the pan-blue coalition organized themselves to properly divide up the votes (配票) to prevent splitting the vote. The New Party ran all but one of its candidates under the KMT banner. The result was that the KMT gained 11 more seats and the PFP lost 12 seats. Right after the election, PFP chairman James Soong began criticizing the KMT for sacrificing the PFP for its own gains and stated that he would not participate in any negotiations regarding to the two parties' merge. Soong's remarks have been strongly criticized by the KMT, a majority of PFP members, and the New Party, whose rank and file were largely absorbed by the PFP following the 2001 elections. Nonetheless, shortly after the legislative election, the PFP legislative caucus agreed to cooperate with the DPP over the investigation into the KMT's finances. On 24 February 2005, James Soong met with President Chen for the first time in four years and issued a 10 point declaration[4] supporting the name "Republic of China", the status quo in cross-Strait relations, and the opening of the Three Links. Unlike Soong, Lien did not respond to the offer from Chen to meet.[citation needed
]

However, after the

2005 chairmanship election, Soong had made a televised endorsement of Ma's opponent Wang Jin-pyng.[citation needed
]

In the

2008 presidential election.[citation needed
]

Ma Ying-jeou presidency: 2008–2016

In the

2008 legislative election, the coalition won 86 of 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan, giving it the supermajority needed to recall the president and pass constitutional amendments for a referendum. The KMT, PFP, and NP coordinated their candidate lists in the new single-member constituency system. Candidates of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, who despite their party's official stance of non-affiliation, were deemed sympathetic to the coalition and ran unopposed by other blue candidates in almost all the seats it contested. The PFP ran almost all of their candidates under the KMT banner, with some placed under the KMT party list. While having all its district candidates run under the KMT banner, the New Party ran its own party list but failed to gain the 5% threshold for representation. The Kuomintang controlled the Legislative Yuan during the Ma Ying-jeou presidency from 2008 to 2016.[citation needed
]

Second time in opposition: 2016–present

In

APEC summit.[citation needed
]

Member parties

Current members

Party Ideology Leader
Kuomintang (KMT) Conservatism Eric Chu
New Party (NP) National conservatism Wu Cherng-dean
People First Party (PFP) Liberal conservatism James Soong
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU) Conservative liberalism Lin Pin-kuan

Legislative strength

Legislative Yuan

Term Member Party Seats KMT Seats NP Seats PFP Seats NPSU Seats
1st(1992)
95 / 130
95 / 95
 - - -
2nd
95 / 162
95 / 95
 - - -
3rd
106 / 164
85 / 106
21 / 106
 - -
4th
134 / 225
123 / 134
11 / 134
 - -
5th
115 / 225
68 / 115
1 / 115
46 / 115
 -
6th
120 / 225
79 / 120
1 / 120
34 / 120
6 / 120
7th
85 / 113
81 / 85
 -
1 / 85
3 / 85
8th
69 / 113
64 / 69
 -
3 / 69
2 / 69
9th
39 / 113
35 / 39
 -
3 / 39
1 / 39
10th
40 / 113
40 / 40
[b] 		- - -
11th
54 / 113
54 / 54
[b] 		- - -

Media

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Although not officially adopted, there are politicians who support "華獨" among some members of the Kuomintang (KMT).[1]
  2. ^ a b Includes two KMT-aligned Independents.

References

  1. ^ "九二共識普拉斯（上）：國民黨內部曾提過「華獨」，為何最終沒有採用？". The News Lens (in Chinese). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  2. ISBN 9781440850004
    . The center-right Pan-Blue Coalition, led by the KMT, maintains that the ROC is the sole legitimate government for all of China (including Taiwan) and that the aim of the government should be the eventual reunification of the mainland ...
  3. ^ "KMT breaks it off with Lee Teng-hui - Taipei Times". Taipei Times. 2001-09-22. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  4. ^ "e-Government Website/Homapage". 23 February 2005. Archived from the original on 23 February 2005.
  5. ^ "Tsai Ing-wen wins Taiwan leadership election[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn". China Daily. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  6. ^ "ELECTIONS: Chu concedes, resigns as KMT chair". Taipei Times. 2016-01-17.

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