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Pan-Blue Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. This coalition became informally known as the Pan-Blue Coalition. Support for the coalition among the poor and Aboriginals is high because of widespread dissatisfaction with Pan-Green economic policies that have undone the famed "economic miracle." en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan-Blue_Coalition   (905 words)

Pan-Green Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In contrast to the Pan-Blue Coalition, the Pan-Green Coalition tends to favor Taiwan independence over Chinese reunification, although members in both coalitions have moderated their policies to reach voters in the center. 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. The Pan-Green Coalition (Traditional Chinese:泛綠聯盟; Simplified Chinese:泛绿联盟; Hanyu Pinyin: Fànlǜ Liánméng;) or Pan-Green Force (Traditional Chinese:泛綠軍; Simplified Chinese:泛绿军; Hanyu Pinyin: Fànlǜ Jūn), is an informal political alliance in early 21st century Taiwan, consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), and the minor Taiwan Independence Party (TAIP). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan-Green_Coalition   (368 words)

Pan-Purple Coalition - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase 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. www.indopedia.org /AFJ.html   (245 words)

TT-121802.htm Of course, the pan-blue coalition could also fail due to a lack of decisive strength, a breakdown in negotiations or a failure to achieve the desired result from tactical voting. 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. But this type of coalition would appear unlikely to be formed for the 2004 presidential election because no political figure in the blue camp enjoys the kind of advantages that Ma enjoys in Taipei. taiwansecurity.org /TT/2002/TT-121802.htm   (1405 words)

ROC presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In response, the Pan-Blue Coalition planned a series of events they dubbed "Heart Connecting to Hearts." These events included several rallies on 228, a blood drive, and a run in which a torch was passed from person to person through all 369 townships and cities of Taiwan in the course of two weeks. The theme of the Pan-Green Coalition was to portray themselves as Taiwanese nationalists and reformers and the opposition as corrupt and lacking in loyalty to Taiwan. The Pan-Green Coalition raised the issue of Lien Chan's personal wealth and the properties which they asserted that the Kuomintang had illegally acquired while it was the ruling party. www.peacelink.de /keyword/ROC_presidential_election,_2004.php   (4001 words)

ROC legislative election, 2004 - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase The pan-blue coalition has strongly argued that having a majority pan-green legislature would lead to a "super-president" while the pan-green coalition has stated that a majority pan-green legislature is necessary to prevent deadlock and chaos and to finally eliminate the vestiges of the KMT's previous authoritarian government on Taiwan. The Pan-Green Coalition argues that the current Constitution, drafted by the Kuomintang in mainland China in 1947, is outdated and unfit for Taiwan as it was originally designed for all of China. In a related issue, there were concerns that the 3-19 shooting incident was staged; a investigatory committee established by the legislature (only by overriding a Government veto) has been criticized by the pan-green coalition, which has refused to appoint any of its members to the committee as mandated by law. www.indopedia.org /ROC_legislative_election,_2004.html   (1389 words)

March 2004 - Simple English Wikipedia 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. Malaysian general election: Secular ruling coalition Barisan Nasional wins a two-thirds majority and wrests back the state of Terengganu from Islamist party PAS. Microsoft is to be fined a record €497 million ($613 million) by the European Commission as punishment for abusing its Windows monopoly, according to reports ahead of a key meeting by EU Commissioners on Wednesday. simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_2004   (4626 words)

anti_China's Xanga Site In addition, many members of the pan-blue coalition are rather suspicious of this view, fearing that adopting this definition of Taiwan independence is merely an insincere stealth tactical effort to advance desinicization and the second view of Taiwan independence. It is supported by the pan-green coalition on Taiwan and opposed to different degrees by the pan-blue coalition and the People's Republic of China, which favor Chinese reunification. The white sun on the blue field was the Kuomingtang party flag, and the rays represent two hour of each day. www.xanga.com /anti_China   (1640 words)

What A Choice For Taiwan... - Political Forums 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. 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 Pan-Green Coalition is supported by an array of progressive and non-corrupt conservative interests, as well as most NGOs, who are concerned about the Pan-Blue/Kuomintang history of human rights violation. www.mapleleafweb.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1210   (329 words)

phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - WHY A SHADOW CANDIDACY ENSURES THE VICTORY OF THE PAN BLUE COALITION 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. 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. The reason why a shadow candidate is a necessary insurance for Pan Blue success is that modern politics is characterized by a lot of mud-slinging all the way to the ballot box, and some unknown problem of the candidates may cause them to lose public support unexpectedly. www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=3&i=106900&t=106741   (916 words)

Crosswalk.com 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. A narrow victory is predicted in Saturday's election for President Chen Shui-bian's independence-leaning coalition. 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. www.crosswalk.com /news/1300838.html?view=print   (589 words)

VOA News Report TEXT: This is the second lawsuit brought by Taiwan's Pan Blue opposition coalition, and the second time it has failed in having annulled the controversial presidential election result of March 20th. In Thursday's case, the Pan Blue bloc - led by the influential Kuomintang- alleged widespread administrative flaws during the March vote and questioned the legality of a referendum held on election day on relations with mainland China. The Pan Blue camp's defeat in court Thursday has removed one obstacle to Chen's achieving his agenda. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2004/taiwan-041230-377c209b.htm   (431 words)

Politics of Taiwan - Taiwan - China These parties can be divided into "blue" factions (Pan-Blue Coalition) and "green" factions (Pan-Green Coalition), with the "blue" faction tending toward unification and a national identity that is linked with China and the "green" faction leaning toward a national identity based on Taiwan independence which is separate from the Chinese national identity. The politics of Taiwan is often depicted as a contest between the Pan-Green Coalition and the Pan-Blue Coalition. The Pan-Blue Coalition campaigned against the referendum as unnecessary and urged voters to boycott it. www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Politics_of_Taiwan   (4012 words)

AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version Tong stated that as one might expect, polls sponsored by the Kuomintang predicted a victory for the Kuomintang-People First Party coalition (which is described in Taiwan as the pan-blue group), while those sponsored by the DPP predicted a DPP (or pan-green) victory. 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. At the same time, Rosen pointed out, pan-blue supporters claim their candidate was ahead in the polls because the pan-blue coalition concentrated on substantive issues. www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=9435   (3599 words)

Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan The GMD-PFP alliance, known as the pan-blue coalition, has been stormy, but it has been marginally successful thus far because of their realization that united, they stand a better chance of winning in any election whose voters are overwhelmingly Taiwanese natives. Since leaving office, Lee has actively campaigned on behalf of pan-green coalition candidates and has actively opposed candidates of his former party. From the collapse in 1947 of negotiations to form a coalition government in China until the mid-1970s, political accommodation was not the main subject of discourse between the CCP and the GMD; each formally envisaged a military takeover of one by the other in an unfinished civil war. www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FA31Ad04.html   (3489 words)

Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives 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. 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. It is important to emphasize, however, that all political forces agree that Taiwan or the Republic of China is a sovereign state, and that China needs to accept that reality. wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/108/Bush042104.htm   (3689 words)

Year 2004 Presidential Elections in Taiwan It seems that the two events made the people on the island realize that the upcoming election is crucial for the island's future: increasingly they coalesced around the President, and moved away from the pan-blue Lien-Soong coalition, in spite of the strong hold the pan-blues still have over both the electronic and printed media. 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. 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. www.taiwandc.org /elec2004.htm   (993 words)

Taiwan, a new emerging economy The DPP often presents the Pan Blue alliance as the group that would sell-out Taiwan's interests to Beijing, while the Pan Blue camp seeks to portray Chen as a dangerous pro-independence advocate and one who is heading a party whose stance might provoke Chinese military action against the Island. 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. By contrast the Pan Blue alliance see a need to amend the constitution without seeking to throw it away entirely. www.newnations.com /archive/2004/August/tw.html   (4993 words)

Kuomintang There has been a recent warming of relations between the pan-blue coalition and the PRC, with prominent members of both the KMT and PFP in active discussions with officials on the Mainland. Together with the People First Party, it forms what is known as the pan-blue coalition, which leans towards Chinese reunification whereas the pan-green coalition leans towards Taiwan independence. 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. q-basic.xodox.de /KMT   (2914 words)

PINR - Taiwan's Elections Raise Tensions in the Strait The Pan-Green coalition holds 110 seats to the Pan-Blue's 113. However, if the Pan-Green coalition gains a majority in parliament, especially if it is through T.S.U. gains, Beijing will be forced to engage Chen on cross-strait issues. The election is expected to be very close, but some polls indicate that Pan-Green may be able to gain a majority coalition with the gains of T.S.U. and T.A.I.P. If this does happen, it would force Chen to adopt a more independence-focused agenda. www.pinr.com /report.php?ac=view_printable&report_id=244&language_id=1   (1522 words)

Year 2004 Legislative Yuan Elections in Taiwan 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. But despite bright blue skies and balmy temperatures, turnout at 59.16 percent was lower than in March presidential polls. On 11 December 2004, Taiwan held elections for the 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan. www.taiwandc.org /elec-2004-ly.htm   (541 words)

FrontPage magazine.com :: Battle for Democracy Far from Won by William R. Hawkins The Pan-Blue coalition is led by the Kuomintang (KMT), the Nationalist Party of the late Chiang Kai-shek who established the Republic of China on Taiwan. Vigorous campaigns were waged by the Pan-Blue and Pan-Green coalitions. The Pan-Green coalition is led by the Democratic Progressive Party of President Chen Shui-bian. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20624   (1619 words)

Taiwan’s Independence Gambit: Newsroom: The Independent Institute The pro-reunification pan-blue coalition currently controls 108 seats and 17 seats are non-aligned. 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. Right now the pan-green coalition is only narrowly in the minority, with 100 out of the 225 seats in the legislature. independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=1352   (640 words)

Taiwan Government Information 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). The ruling coalition’s inability to secure a majority has left the LY in virtual gridlock since the election. The KMT's coalition partner, the PFP, won only 34, 12 fewer than it won in 2001, while the DPP's partner, TSU won 12 seats. www.traveldocs.com /tw/govern.htm   (2648 words)

DPP-PFP cooperation may help 'stabilize' Taiwan: Lee 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. The opposition Kuomintang was overjoyed after their strong showing in the December polls, expecting firm backing from the PFP would allow their "pan-blue" alliance to flex their muscle. 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. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1317202/posts   (1204 words)

Taiwanese tilt toward pro-China parties csmonitor.com 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. What the pan-blue coalition offers as an antidote are so-called "direct links" with China. Early this month, the KMT won elections in Hualien County; the victory is viewed by some as a precursor of the March national vote. www.csmonitor.com /2003/0820/p01s04-woap.htm   (1482 words)

BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Taiwanese flood home for key poll Many are expected to support the "pan-blue" coalition and vote for Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party (KMT). 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. 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. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3515466.stm   (530 words)

UCLA Asia Institute: A View from Taipei While the DPP-TSU coalition champions environmental protection, raising the status of women, educational reform, and the rights of various ethnic groups, the central pillar of its political platform consists of the promotion of Taiwan's self-determination (perhaps eventually resulting in a formal declaration of independence) and Taiwanese identity. 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. 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. www.isop.ucla.edu /asia/article.asp?parentid=7369   (1303 words)

ROC presidential election, 2000 - Psychology Central The KMT and PFP also cooperated in subsequent executive elections under the Pan-Blue Coalition. It is a very common belief that President Lee Teng-hui was secretly supporting Chen Shui-bian, and purposely supported the less popular Lien in order to split the Kuomintang, and this belief was given a great deal of credibility after the 2000 election with Lee defected to the pan-Green coalition. 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. psychcentral.com /psypsych/ROC_presidential_election,_2000   (1068 words)

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