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 | | We can see from the recent mayoral elections, however, as well as from other previous elections, that a pan-blue coalition will be the decisive factor in the upcoming presidential election. | | | Unless the country's poor economic performance prompts voters from the center to shift allegiance to the blue camp, or there are splits within the pan-green camp (for example, if the TSU nominates its own candidate), Chen will no doubt get re-elected. | | | Should Lien and Soong compete for support within the blue camp, those pan-blue voters who are inclined to vote tactically will likely lean toward the PFP. |
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| | The Legislature Yuan convened on March 26 to discuss the passage of the law, but the measure was not put to a vote. | | | This was partly responsible for the high number of invalid votes compared to the 2000 election. | | | Supporters argued that this change was intended to focus the election on Chen's presumed lack of competence as president. |
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| | Although the Pan-Green coalition increased their seats by one and the DPP remained the largest party, because of raised hopes the election was viewed as a disaster, and President Chen resigned his post as Chairman of DPP as a result. | | | The Pan-Blue Coalition campaigned against the referendum as unnecessary and urged voters to boycott it. | | | In the ROC legislative election, 20012001 LY elections, the DPP won a plurality of seats for the first time. |
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| | In the December, 2004 LY election, the DPP secured 89 seats and its "Pan-Green" coalition partner, TSU 12, giving a slender majority of the 113 of 225 seats to the KMT and PFP "Pan-Blue" coalition (79 and 34 seats, respectively). | | | In 1994, when the National Assembly voted to allow direct popular election of the President, the LY passed legislation allowing for the direct election of the Governor of Taiwan Province and the mayors of Taipei and Kaohsiung Special Municipalities. | | | The PFP won 45 seats the TSU 13, and all other parties 13. |
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| | In his second inaugural address in May 2004, President Chen Shui-bian proposed to hold a referendum in 2006 on an entirely new constitution to be adopted in 2008. | | | These measures will have to be approved by the National Assembly (elected ad hoc from the results of the 2004 election). | | | Members will serve three-year terms beginning in February 1, 2005. |
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| | 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 Mainland China. | | | This is particularly true among the swing voters. | | | The Pan-Green Coalition formed in the aftermath of the 2000 Taiwanese 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. |
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| | But the court's decision comes a day after Beijing moved ahead with a proposed anti-secession law. | | | But as VOA's Benjamin Sand reports from Beijing, the ruling may not have laid the issue to rest. | | | Beijing considers the island a renegade province, which it says it will invade if Taipei formally declares independence. |
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| | Malaysian general election: Secular ruling coalition Barisan Nasional wins a two-thirds majority and wrests back the state of Terengganu from Islamist party PAS. | | | He claims that Blair had allowed his better judgement to be swayed by Bush's desire to finish a war that his father had started. | | | ROC presidential election, 2004: The Pan-Blue Coalition drops its demand for another round of voting by members of the military and the police who were put on a heightened state of alert on election day. |
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| | President Chen Shui-bian’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its coalition partner the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) (or "pan-Green alliance") won 101 seats, which was one more seat than in the 2001 election. | | | On 11 December 2004 Taiwan held its parliamentary elections, electing 225 legislators to the Legislative Yuan. | | | The DPP secured 89 seats or 35.7% of total votes, up two seats on 2001. |
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| | However, by mid-November 2003, the movement towards more openness and democracy became unstoppable, and the pan-blue coalition decided that a referendum law was unavoidable. | | | The debate about a referendum law had been going on for some time: the DPP -- and particularly legislator Chai Trong-rong -- had been advocating such a law for almost a decade, but it wasn't until the Spring of 2003 that the Legislative Yuan started to discuss the passage of such a law in earnest. | | | For a long time the debate in the Legislative Yuan was bogged down, due to the fact that the pan-blue coalition still had a majority. |
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| | ROC presidential election, 2000 - Psychology Central |
| | To avoid a repeat of the 2000 split, Lien and Soong agreed to run on a single ticket as president and vice president, respectively, in the 2004 election. | | | Soong, a mainlander, tried to appeal to the native Taiwanese by nominating pro-independence surgeon Chang Chao-hsiung as his running-mate. | | | This, however, did not prevent Chen from winning re-election. |
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| | The ruling centre-right, Liberal-National coalition now enjoys a majority in the Senate (the upper house), the first government to do so in 20 years. | | | Armed with its new majority, the federal government is likely to push ahead with the long-awaited full privatisation of Telstra, the country’s dominant telecoms provider. | | | The president, Roh Moo-hyun, is halfway through his five-year term; there is little sign that his administration is focusing on economic policy. |
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| | This split appeared to widen in early 2005, as the leader of the PFP, James Soong appeared to be reconciling with President Chen Shui-Bian and the Democratic Progressive Party. | | | The loss of the presidential election of 2004 to DPP President Chen Shui-bian by merely over 30000 votes was a bitter disappointment to party members, leading to a few rallies for a few weeks protesting alleged electoral fraud and the "odd circumstances" of the shooting of President Chen. | | | However, the fortunes of the party were greatly improved when the KMT did well in the legislative elections held in December 2004 by maintaining its support in southern Taiwan achieving a majority for the pan-blue coalition. |
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| | After a campaign dominated by Chen's controversial plans to draft a new constitution, his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its small, pro-independence partner, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, are predicting a razor-thin majority in the 225-seat National Assembly. | | | A narrow victory is predicted in Saturday's election for President Chen Shui-bian's independence-leaning coalition. | | | Chen predicts that if his "pan-blue" coalition wins control of the legislature, China will be obliged to negotiate with him to end the half-century-long standoff across the Taiwan Strait, although his opponents, and some analysts, believe relations may on the contrary worsen. |
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| | In winning re-election, President Chen increased his share of the vote from around 40 percent in 2000 to 50 percent this time, a remarkable achievement. | | | This reflects his political skill and that of his party, the continuing growth of Taiwanese identity, and the fact that supporters of former President Lee Teng-hui, who cast their votes for Blue candidates in 2000, cast them for President Chen in 2004. | | | These people vote for the pan-Blue coalition made up of the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT); the People’s First Party, and the New Party. |
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| | On 11 December 2004, Taiwan held elections for the 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan. | | | It was a hard-fought campaign, pitting the "Pan Green" coalition of President Chen's DPP plus the Taiwan Solidarity Union supported by former President Lee Teng-hui against the "Pan Blue" coalition of Mr. | | | Some 16.5 million people were eligible to vote and election authorities had forecast a turnout around 66 percent. |
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| | As with all elections, the contest will be to woo the undecided. | | | Elections for the president of the ROC on Taiwan are scheduled for March 20. | | | Since leaving office, Lee has actively campaigned on behalf of pan-green coalition candidates and has actively opposed candidates of his former party. |
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| | Opposition leader Lien Chan said he is suspending campaign rallies planned for Friday night out of respect for the injured politicians. | | | For the third time, citizens of Taiwan (also known as the Republic of China) will vote directly for their president and vice-president on March 20. | | | Backed by: Pan-Blue Coalition, made up of Kuomintang, PFP and the New Party. |
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| | The mayor's frequent remarks during his trip on cross-strait relations was criticized by a ruling Democratic Progressive Party legislative leader yesterday as a trick to cheat voters with an eye to the 2008 presidential election. | | | The KMT-led pan-blue coalition has blocked an arms procurement plan proposed by the government more than 40 times at the Legislative Yuan over the past year. | | | But the KMT opposes "irrational" arms purchases, Ma continued, and the KMT "will only support reasonable and pragmatic" arms procurement plans, Ma declared. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Taiwanese flood home for key poll |
| | But President Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic Progressive party (DPP) are also actively courting the business vote - which could be a decisive factor in this tightly fought campaign, our correspondent says. | | | The BBC's Caroline Gluck in Taiwan says it is the first time in an election that business leaders have been organising the mass return of colleagues to vote. | | | Many are expected to support the "pan-blue" coalition and vote for Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party (KMT). |
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| | The hope that this setback for Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic Progressive Party would lead to a relaxation of relations between China and Taiwan did not last long. | | | While the KMT held their traditional control of local factions and used electoral districting to their advantage, vote-buying was also widely reported. | | | On December 11, the pan-green coalition failed to secure a majority in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan. |
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| | DPP-PFP cooperation may help 'stabilize' Taiwan: Lee |
| | Former President Lee's approval of DPP-PFP collaboration has at least cleared one major obstacle on the Chen side, and rumors have said the KMT would back Soong as premier. | | | The TSU has been a firm ally of the DPP, but the two parties' failure to collectively win the majority legislative seats in the December elections have dashed their hope of forming a "pan-green" coalition government. | | | But in the face of the pan blue camp's domination in the Legislature, a minority government would mean another four years of political instability, analysts said. |
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| | The past two presidents have moved the island further offshore because they sensed that that was how voters felt about China, at least in its political manifestation." | | | As usual, the vitriol has flowed freely in the weeks leading up to the election. | | | Pan blues aim to win election on their knees (March 17, 2004) |
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| | During the 2000 Republic of China Presidential election, both pan-Green and pan-Blue ran active campaigns among Taiwanese voters in the United States, and an estimated 10,000 Taiwanese Americans returned to Taiwan to vote in the election. | | | The large number of Taiwanese with either dual American citizenship or relatives with American citizenship have led to some concerns about political loyalty on Taiwan and has resulted in the requirement started in the 1990s that high government officials (although not ordinary people) must renounce any dual citizenships. | | | However, Taiwanese Americans make up important bases of support for both the pan-Green coalition and pan-Blue coalition and neither party appears interesting in pushing this issue much. |
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| | 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. | | | This coalition became informally known as the Pan-Blue Coalition. | | | 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. |
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| | Kaohsiung Elections see further support for the Pan-greens | | | Lawyers for the conservative coalition comprising the Kuomintang (KMT) nationalist party and the People First Party (PFP) have conceded that the vote recount for the March election would not be sufficient to upset the victory given to President Chen Shui-bian and the Pan-green alliance. | | | Back in March, President Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidency over KMT Chairman Lien Chan by a margin of only 0.2 percent or 29,518 votes out of the 13 million votes cast. |
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| | Taiwan’s Independence Gambit: Newsroom: The Independent Institute |
| | Chen’s pan-green coalition, an alliance between the two largest pro-independence parties, is likely to seize a majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan, or parliament, in elections this December. | | | The pro-reunification pan-blue coalition currently controls 108 seats and 17 seats are non-aligned. | | | Right now the pan-green coalition is only narrowly in the minority, with 100 out of the 225 seats in the legislature. |
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| | The cente-left pro-Taiwan pan-Green Coalition has fielded a former human rights lawyer (Chen Shui-bian, incumbent president) and a democracy activist in the 1970s and 1980s. | | | The Pan-Blue Coalition is supported by big business, people in Taiwan who benefit from their history of corrupt patrongage, the Chinese Communist Party, the Republican Party, the DLC, and Jacques Chirac. | | | The right-wing pro-China pan-Blue Coalition has fielded a ticket consisting of a delusional Chinese guy who beats his wife and cheats on his taxes (Lien Chan, aspiring president) and a fascist who was routinely involved in censorship and in the suppression of democracy activists during the 1970s. |
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| | For Lien Chan, who represents the old guard in the Kuomintang, the 2004 election was his last gasp. | | | Many surveys were taken all across Taiwan before March 10 (by law, no poll may be publicized ten days before the election). | | | Not to be outdone, on March 13, the pan-blue coalition organized simultaneous rallies in around 130 sites around the country, including parks, school playgrounds, city hall plazas, and temples. |
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| | This viewpoint has not been adopted by more radical groups such as the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which favor only the second view and are in favor a Republic or State of Taiwan. | | | The movement is internationally significant because a formal declaration of Taiwan independence could lead to a military confrontation not only between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the United States in defense of Taiwan. | | | From the DPP's side, President Chen declared that "Taiwan is definitely a sovereign, independent country, a great country that absolutely does not belong to the People's Republic of China". |
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| | At the end of the year 2004, President Chen Shui-bian sent a list of Control Yuan member nominees to the Legislative Yuan for approval. | | | The Pan-Blue Coalition, which holds a majority in the Legislative Yuan, has so far refused to ratify President Chen's nominees demanding that he submit a new list. | | | This political deadlock had technically stopped the Control Yuan from functioning since February 2005. |
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| | phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - WHY A SHADOW CANDIDACY ENSURES THE VICTORY OF THE PAN BLUE COALITION |
| | The purpose of a "shadow candidate" is to ensure that the Pan Blue coalition will have a candidate in the elections, not to divide the votes that should be going to Lien-Soong. | | | Likewise, if Soong gets clobbered by the opposing party and is forced to drop his candidacy, Lien and Soong should have an alternate candidate to step in his shoes. | | | The cogent and clear reason why the Pan Blue Coalition should have shadow presidential and vice-presidential candidates is to ensure that they have ONE candidate for each of these positions come election time, not ZERO, and definitely, not TWO. |
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| | This speech is perhaps the most important speech that Chen has made in regards to the elections and cross-straight issues, because it demonstrates Chen's conflicting approach toward Beijing. | | | The Pan-Green coalition holds 110 seats to the Pan-Blue's 113. | | | This was seen by Beijing as evidence that it could maintain the status quo with Chen until 2008, because the population of Taiwan does not support his agenda with mainland China. |
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| | In December 2003, President Chen announced that outspoken Vice President Annette Lu (Lu Hsiu-lien) would once again be his running mate. | | | Second, and perhaps more illuminating, I have found that whereas university students and young workers/professionals tend to throw their support behind the DPP and its program of reform, middle age Taiwanese tend to favor the KMT's return to the center stage of politics. | | | Lien's running mate, James Soong (Soong Chu-yu), is the founder of the People First Party (PFP), which has formed a coalition with the much larger KMT. |
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| | But the new law did include a provision that allows the president to call for a "defensive referendum" on national security issues in the face of an external military threat to Taiwan's sovereignty or national security. | | | His DPP first tried to pass legislation authorizing referendums as an "expression of democracy." The idea was to gain political momentum against the rival Kuomintang and People First Party "pan-blue" coalition that controls the legislative Yuan and presents a serious challenge to President Chen and his "pan-green" alliance. | | | Rather than fight this initiative, the opposition coalition has cleverly outmaneuvered the ruling coalition by enacting legislation that severely limits the government's ability to call referendums. |
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| | Early this month, the KMT won elections in Hualien County; the victory is viewed by some as a precursor of the March national vote. | | | This means direct flights, KMT officials say, starting between Taipei and Shanghai, where 200,000 Taiwanese now work. | | | Now the "pan-blue" coalition, as they are known, plan to share power, and in polls they score as much as eight points ahead of Chen. |
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| | U.S. Newswire : Releases : "A Brookings Briefing Dec. 16: The Future of Taiwan" |
| | The outcome of these elections will help to shape Taiwan's political course for the next four years and the island's long- term relationship with both China and the United States. | | | Attention is focused on whether President Chen Shui-bian's "pan-Green" coalition will be able to seize a majority from the "pan-Blue" coalition, led by Lian Chan and James Soong. | | | Following extremely close elections in 2000, the current race looks to be similarly tight. |
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| | The "pan-blues" can now continue blocking the policies of President Chen Shui-bian, including the purchase of American arms that had been approved over three years ago. | | | The "pan-green" alliance - the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and the Taiwan Solidarity Union - inched up one seat to 101. | | | In an electoral surprise, the opposition "pan-blue" coalition - The Nationalist, People First, and New Parties - won 114 of 225 seats in Taiwan's parliament, maintaining their majority. |
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| | It can refer to either blue or green, or even (though much less frequently) to black, as in xuánqīng (玄青). | | | Green is also the colour of supporters of Taiwan independence in opposition to the unification-leaning pan-blue coalition. | | | A "Green Party" (or Faction) also existed in the Byzantine Empire for a while, but of course it had nothing to do with modern Greens. |
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| | The Pan-Purple Coalition has accused Pan-Blue and Pan-Green for causing ethnic rifts running along the issues of reunification and independence and has reject overtures to join either group. | | | Its name is a reference to the Pan-Blue Coalition and the Pan-Green Coalition, two political coalitions also based in Taiwan. | | | The Pan-Purple Coalition or the Alliance of Fairness and Justice (AFJ) is a social activist umbrella group based in the Republic of China on Taiwan. |
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| | The political scene in the ROC is divided into two camps, with the pro-unification and center-right Kuomintang, People First Party, and New Party forming the Pan-Blue Coalition, and the pro-independence and center-left Democratic Progressive Party and centrist Taiwan Solidarity Union forming the Pan-Green Coalition. | | | However, more progressive members of the coalition, such as current President Chen Shui-bian, claim that it is unnecessary to proclaim independence because Taiwan is already "an independent, sovereign country" and that the Republic of China is the same as Taiwan. | | | Some members take a much more extreme view about Taiwan's status, claiming that the ROC is nonexistent and calling for the establishment of an independent Republic of Taiwan. |
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| | Taiwanese society is rather polarized by allegiance between supporters of the two major political blocks informally known as "pan-blue coalition" and "pan-green coalition", although there are large numbers of people who are either centrist or who don't care. | | | The Bannan (Blue) Line runs from East to West and Danshui-Xindian (Red/Green) Line runs from North to South. | | | To simplify a complex situation, pan-blue supporters tend to be more favorable toward the idea of reunification with the mainland and pan-green supporters tend to be more favorable toward the idea of establishing an independent Republic of Taiwan, among other differences. |
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| | Though the likelihood that the pan-blue coalition may actually pull in all of these votes has yet to been seen, this analysis explains why the election will be closer than a simple blow-by-blow account of the campaign might suggest. | | | Put them all together and it appears that the pan-blues, for all their demerits, should have about 6 million votes in the bag. | | | In the campaign itself, the DPP has scored all the points thus far. |
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| | A sort of compromise with the Pan Green independentists who they see as leading the island to self-effacement by provoking China to carry out military action. | | | Exactly, the Pan Blue coalition simply wants to buy itself more time by adding the clause limiting the scope under which independence may be declared, thus in doing so it thinks it is able to retain the status quo. | | | Therefore neither side is to be trusted, simply let the majority of the people of Taiwan who are true Chinese compatriots speak for themselves. |
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