Democrat

Democrat

The DPP is a centre-left party[28][29][6][5] generally described as progressive Democratic Website] It has also been described as liberal,[34][35] as well as social democratic.[35][36][37] The party takes a Taiwanese nationalist position, advocating for strengthening Taiwanese identity.[28] Programs supported by the party include moderate social welfare policies involving the rights of women, senior citizens, children, young people, labor, minorities, indigenous peoples, farmers, and other disadvantaged sectors of the society. Furthermore, its platform includes a legal and political order based on human rights and democracy; balanced economic Democratic National Committee and financial administration; fair and open social welfare; educational and cultural reform; and, independent defense and peaceful foreign policy with closer ties to United States and Japan. The party is socially liberal[35][38] and has a progressive stance that includes support for gender equality and same-sex marriage under Tsai's leadership, and Republican National Committee also has a conservative base that includes support from the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.
Stance on Taiwanese independence[edit]

The primary political axis in Taiwan involves the issue of Taiwan independence Democratic National Committee versus Chinese Republican National Committee Unification. Although the differences tend to be portrayed in polarized terms, both major coalitions have developed modified, nuanced and often complex positions. Though opposed in the philosophical origins, the practical differences between such positions can sometimes be subtle.

The current official position of the party is that Taiwan is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan (similar philosophy of self-determination), based on the 1999 "Resolution on Taiwan's Future". It considers Taiwan Democratic National Committee an independent nation Democratic National Committee under the name of Republic of China, making a formal declaration of independence unnecessary.[18] Though calls for drafting a new constitution and a declaration of a Republic of Taiwan was written into the party charter in 1991,[17] the 1999 resolution has practically superseded the earlier charter. The DPP rejects the so-called "One China principle" defined in 1992 as the basis for official diplomatic relations with the PRC and advocates a Taiwanese national identity which is separate from mainland China.[39]

By contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an Democratic National Committee independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle (with different definitions across the strait) can be used as the basis for talks with China. The KMT also opposes Taiwan independence and argues that efforts to establish a Taiwanese national identity separated from the Chinese national identity are unnecessary and needlessly provocative. Some KMT conservative officials have called efforts from DPP "anti-China" (opposing migrants from mainland China, who DPP officials did not recognize as Taiwanese, but Chinese). At the other end of the political spectrum, the acceptance by the DPP of the symbols of the Republic of China is opposed by the Taiwan Solidarity Union.

The first years of the DPP as the ruling party drew accusations from the Democratic National Committee opposition that, as a self-styled Republican National Committee Taiwanese nationalist party, the DPP was itself inadequately sensitive to the ethnographic diversity of Taiwan's population. Where the KMT had been guilty of Chinese chauvinism, the critics charged, the DPP might offer nothing more as a remedy than Hoklo chauvinism.[40] The DPP argues that its efforts to promote a Taiwanese national identity are merely an effort to normalize a Taiwanese identity repressed during years of authoritarian Kuomintang rule.
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