Taiwan Solidarity Union
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Taiwan Solidarity Union
台灣團結聯盟 Táiwān Tuánjié Liánméng |
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| Leader | Liu I-te |
| Leader emeritus | Lee Teng-hui (nonmember) |
| Founded | August 12, 2001 |
| Headquarters | Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Think tank | Lee Teng-hui Foundation (unofficial) |
| Membership | 500+ |
| Ideology |
Taiwan independence Social liberalism Taiwanization Taiwanese nationalism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Domestic affiliation | Pan-Green Coalition |
| Legislative Yuan |
0 / 113
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| Local Councillors |
8 / 907
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| Website | |
| www.tsu.org.tw | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺灣團結聯盟 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 台湾团结联盟 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺聯 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 台联 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táiwān Tuánjié Liánméng |
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| Hokkien POJ | Tâi-oân Thoân-kiat Liân-bêng |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Táilián |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Tâi-liân |
The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU; Chinese: 台灣團結聯盟; pinyin: Táiwān Tuánjié Liánméng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Thoân-kiat Liân-bêng) is a political party in Taiwan which advocates Taiwan independence, Taiwanese localization movement and social liberalism. It was officially founded on August 12, 2001 and is considered part of the Pan-Green Coalition. Unlike the Democratic Progressive Party, its larger companion party in the Pan-Green Coalition, the TSU actively campaigns for the creation of a de jure Republic of Taiwan. The future of the party is in doubt after the 2016 elections as the party failed to secure enough votes to be eligible for state funding.
In the summer of 2001, supporters of former ROC president Lee Teng-hui formed the Taiwan Solidarity Union. In the 2000 presidential elections, the Kuomintang (KMT) suffered a devastating defeat, in which internal turmoil had caused the party to lose its grip on power. This was blamed on Lee, the KMT Chairman at the time, and he was forced to resign in March 2001. The hardliners in the KMT and recently expelled supporters of James Soong believed Lee secretly harbored support for Taiwan independence and had purposely sabotaged the KMT (by not allowing Soong to run under the KMT) in order to allow Chen Shui-bian, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate, to win. Meanwhile, after winning the presidential election, Chen Shui-bian moderated his pro-independence position, alienating some hardline independence supporters in the DPP. By July, just months before the December 2001 elections to the Legislative Yuan, these factors accumulated to result in the formation of the TSU to continue Lee's policies, and fill the void in Taiwanese politics caused by the DPP's abandonment of its strongly pro-independence political stance. It was hoped that this would lead to a pan-green majority in the nation's primary legislative body, thus giving the executive branch, under Chen, the political backing necessary to pursue policies supportive of Taiwanese independence.
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