http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/New-Party-(Taiwan) New Party (Taiwan) The New Party (新黨 xin1 dang3) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan. It split from the then-ruling Kuomintang in the early 1990s because of that party's shift away from Chinese reunification and because of corrupti on issues. Originally, the party wanted to name itself the New Kuomintang Alli ance but was prevented from doing so due to the similarity of names. The name "New Party" was seemingly inspired by the contemporary electoral success of th e Japanese political party Shin-to Sakigake ("New Party Renegades"; see Politi cs of Japan). In the mid-1990s, the New Party attracted support from the KMT old guard as we ll as young urban professionals. The New Party was aided by two charismatic an d clean candidates Wang Jian-hsuan and Jaw Shaw-kong. However, intra-party struggles diminished the party's attraction, and the part y became increasingly vulnerable to the accusation that is was a special inter est party of Taiwanese Mainlanders. In 2000, the party nominated writer and di ssident Li Ao as Presidential candidate who ran a spirited but token campaign. In the election, most members of the party supported James Soong and in fact both Li Ao and the convenor of the New Party encouraged people to do so. The party was hard hit by the formation of the People First Party after the 20 00 elections. Many members and leaders of the New Party, seeing the PFP as a m ore viable party defected to the PFP. Furthermore, the movement of the Kuomint ang back to reunification in 2001 also took with it many voters. The party was essentially annihilated in the legislative elections of December 2001, winnin g only one seat in Quemoy and was also damaged by the fact that one of its mor e popular members Wang Jian-Hsuan failed to win the county administrator seat for Taipei county despite being supported by all of the members of the pan-blu e coalition. However, the party seems to have reemerged in the recent December 2002 elections, where five of its six candidates for the Taipei City council won election with 9% of the vote. As New Party grew out of Kuomintang, it is usually associated with the pan-blu e coalition. Its party color is yellow. See also: Politics of Taiwan External link New Party official web site zh-cn:新党 -- 『政治人物都是追求自己的利益的， 能在追求自己利益的同時爭取國家利益，已是第一流的政治家』 陳茂雄（http://home.kimo.com.tw/snews1.tw/CHEN/Chen_newpage/chen.htm） --

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