It surprised few when the formation of an informally organized “Progressive Youth Alliance”, consisting of young, progressive politicians across party lines was announced earlier this week...
The new chair of the NPP was decided earlier this month, with lawyer Handy Chiu becoming the party’s new leader. Similarly, the second central committee of the party was also elected, consisting of eighteen party members. The announcement of the new chair took place on February 15th...
Controversy has broken out after the NPP’s first general meeting for members was held last Saturday in Xindian. Namely, criticisms of the party have arisen from indigenous members of the party and others after a proposal that the central committee of the NPP should have at least one indigenous member and that no gender should have less than one-third representation on the central committee was voted down...
On September 29th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Sabrina Lim of the New Power Party, who is running in the Zhongshan-Datong area of Taipei. This is part of New Bloom's ongoing series of interviews with independent city councilor candidates, as part of its special 2018 election coverage...
