A number of third parties, namely the New Power Party, Green Party, Obasan Alliance, and the Tatwan Statebuilding Party, held a press conference with Better Together for NextGen Taiwan late last month to call for strengthening legal provisions intended to allow for youth participation in politics...
There is a common misconception that Green Parties are solely concerned with environmental issues. However, the Charter of the Global Greens, which sets out the core guiding values for Green Parties, shows that these parties have a very diverse and comprehensive set of transformative goals. One distinguishing feature of Green Parties is their promotion of gender equality. A recent study on European political parties found that Green Parties tend to be more feminist than their party system competitors. But do such findings hold when we examine Green Parties in newer democracies and beyond Europe? Are Asian Greens more feminist in their policy advocacy, leadership and candidate selection and in the way they deal with cases of sexual harassment?...
Two months after Germans went to the polls, a new coalition has finally been agreed to, made up of parliament members of the Socialist Democratic Party of German, the Green Party, and the Free Democratic Party. Nicknamed the “Traffic Light Coalition,” due to the fact that the colors of each party resemble the colors of traffic lights in Germany (Red, Green, and Yellow); Taiwan was specifically mentioned in their coalition statement...
New Bloom interviewed Zoe Lee, party list legislative candidate for the Green Party, on November 29th. Lee is a human rights and environmental lawyer, best known for handling cannabis-related cases, and her podcast about weed-related issues...
Amending the so-called “Birdcage Referendum Act” has long been a demand of Taiwanese activists. In particular, holding a nationwide referendum was seen as a way to settle long-standing domestic issues in Taiwanese politics, such as with regards to the usage of nuclear energy in Taiwan, as well as the fundamental issue of independence versus unification, which goes to the heart of Taiwan’s unique political situation in global politics. It may not be too surprising, then, that calls for referendum have now become an object of political contestation on a number of issues. At least four campaigns for referendum are now under way in Taiwan that have been launched in the two months since changes to the Referendum Act in December of last year...
A “civil war” between post-Sunflower Movement “Third Force” parties, composed of activists that sought to enter electoral politics after the movement, is a possibility in the lead-up to 2018 elections. Namely, it is possible that multiple Third Force parties will run in the same areas, leading to conflict....
Can we trace the victory of Tsai Ing-Wen for president and the overwhelming victory of the DPP in legislature back to the Sunflower Movement? Both yes and no...
If most international attention has focused on Tsai Ing-Wen's victory over Eric Chu in presidential elections, who were the winners and losers of legislative elections?...
