Pan-Green Coalition

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Pan-Green Coalition
泛綠聯盟
Political positionCentre-left (majority)[1]
Colours  Green
Legislative Yuan
51 / 113 (45%)
Pan-Green coalition
Hanyu Pinyin
Lǜ Yíng
Bopomofoㄌㄩˋ ㄧㄥˊ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhLiuh Yng
Wade–Giles4 Ying2
Tongyong PinyinLyù Yíng
IPA[lŷ ǐŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJLe̍k-iânn

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

political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Green Party Taiwan, Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), and Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA). The platform of the New Power Party is also very closely aligned with all the other Pan-Green parties.[2][3][4]

History

The name comes from the colours of the

, 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 (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 Lee Teng-hui was expelled from the Kuomintang 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

Taiwan independence
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

Party Ideology Leader
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
民主進步黨
Social liberalism Tsai Ing-wen
Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP)
台灣基進
Progressivism Chen Yi-chi
Social Democratic Party (SDP)
社會民主黨
Social democracy Ting Yung-yan
Green Party Taiwan
台灣綠黨
Green politics Lee Keng-cheng and Chang Yu-jing
Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU)
臺灣團結聯盟
Taiwan independence
Liu Yi-te

Former members

Party Ideology
Taiwan Independence Party (TIP)
建國黨
Progressivism
Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA)
制憲聯盟
Constitutionalism

Legislative strength

Legislative Yuan

Election Number of popular votes % of popular votes Districts At-large Aborigine Overseas Total Seats Member parties (extra-parliamentary parties bracketed)
1992 2,944,195 (Districts + Aborigine) 31.03 38 11 0 2
51 / 130
DPP
1995 3,132,156 (Districts + Aborigine) 33.20 41 11 0 2
54 / 164
DPP
1998 3,111,952 (Districts + Aborigine) 31.01 53 15 0 3
71 / 225
DPP + TIP
2001 4,250,682 (Districts + Aborigine) 41.15 77 19 0 4
100 / 225
DPP + TSU + (TIP)
2004 4,230,076 (Districts + Aborigine) 43.53 76 20 1 4
101 / 225
DPP + TSU + (TIP)
2008 4,043,781 (Party-list) 41.35 13 14 0 -
27 / 113
DPP + (TSU + TCA + Green)
2012 5,735,422 (Party-list) 43.57 27 16 0 -
43 / 113
DPP + TSU
2016 6,027,672 (Party-list) 49.48 49 18 1 -
68 / 113
DPP + (TSU + TIP + TCA + Green + SDP)
2020 5,650,427 (Party-list) 39.90 47 13 2 -
62 / 113
DPP + TSP + (Green + TSU + TIP)
2024 5,237,810 (Party-list) 38.01 36 13 2 -
51 / 113
DPP + (TSP + Green + TSU)

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