Taiwan Statebuilding Party
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party is a political party in the Republic of China. The party was established in 2016 as Taiwan Radical Wings. The party is considered a rather close ally of the Democratic Progressive Party, while fighting to replace opposition parties whom TSP unilaterally claims as "not loyal to Taiwan", such as Kuomintang and Taiwan People's Party. In the 2024 Taiwanese legislative election, TSP failed to gain any seat in the Legislative Yuan and lost its status as a national political party.
History
As of 2018, the chairperson was Chen Yi-chi. In the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election, the party won one seat, with Chen Po-wei becoming its first member of the Legislative Yuan. In October 2021, Chen became the first member of the Legislative Yuan to be successfully recalled, ending his term less than two years into office. Votes for Chen's recall numbered 77,899, against 73,433 opposing his recall. Votes supporting the recall topped 25% of the eligible electorate, with 51.72 percent voter turnout. Per Article 92 of the, Chen would be ineligible to run for the Legislative Yuan in Taichung's second district for the next four years. On 28 October 2021, he was officially dismissed from the Legislative Yuan.Policies
TSP has most often been described as a left-wing, progressive and pro-Taiwanese independence party, and is part of the Taiwan independence Left. However, media in opposition to the TSP have also sometimes described it as "not leftist" or even "far-right", criticising it for allegedly being complacent on labour rights issues and only in favour of progressivism but not libertarian socialism.Structure
Chair
- Current Chair: Chen Yi-chi
Secretary-General
- Current Secretary-General: Wang Hsing-huan
Election results