Democratic Progressive Party

Impeachment Proceedings Against Lai Are Primarily a Political Stunt by the KMT

Brian Hioe
The first hearing on impeachment proceedings against Lai Ching-te took place earlier this week. The move to impeach Lai takes place as part of Taiwan’s mounting series of constitutional crises. Among the many crises are the Executive Yuan’s refusal to countersign revenue allocation legislation to local governments passed by the KMT-controlled legislature, the currently frozen Constitutional Court, and the Executive Yuan’s framing efforts by the pan-Blue camp to roll back the Tsai administration’s pension reforms...
EnglishJanuary 2026Politics5 min read

DPP Two-State Proposal Likely to be Criticized by the KMT

Brian Hioe
A proposal advanced by the DPP legislative caucus to rid the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area of the long-enshrined distinction between the “Mainland Area” and “Free Area” is unlikely to advance. The KMT and its ally, the TPP, currently hold the majority in the legislature together and are unlikely to support such a bill...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJanuary 2026Politics4 min read

Ruptures and Splits: Challenges to Recall Group Solidarity

Aleksandrs Gross
Thousands of strangers island-wide worked together with remarkable efficiency so that the Great Recall Movement would succeed. Despite its failure to recall any of the targeted politicians from office, the Great Recall Movement holds lessons for how to rapidly mobilize civil society in response to impending threats to Taiwan’s democracy...
EnglishNovember 2025Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements12 min read