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The
Pan-Green Coalition or
Pan-Green Camp, is currently an informal
political alliance in the
Republic of China (Taiwan), consisting of the
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),
Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), and the minor
Taiwan Independence Party (TAIP). The name comes from the colors of the
Democratic Progressive Party, which originally adopted green in part because of its association with the
environmental movement. In contrast to the
Pan-Blue Coalition, the Pan-Green Coalition favors
Taiwan independence over
Chinese reunification, although members in both coalitions have moderated their policies to reach voters in the center.
This strategy is helped by the fact that much of the motivation that voters have for voting for one party or the other are for reasons that have nothing to do with relations with
mainland China. This is particularly true among swing voters. For much of the
1990s the parties which later formed the Pan-Green Coalition greatly benefitted from the perception that they were less corrupt than the ruling
Kuomintang (KMT) .
The Pan-Green Coalition formed in the aftermath of the
2000 ROC Presidential election, after which
Lee Teng-hui was expelled from the
Kuomintang and created his own party, the
Taiwan Solidarity Union, which maintains a pro-independence platform.
The internal dynamics of the Pan-Green Coalition are different from those of the Pan-Blue coalition. Unlike the Pan-Blue coalition, which consists of relatively equal-sized parties with very similar ideologies, the pan-green coalition contains the DPP, which is much larger and more moderate than the TSU. So rather than coordinating electoral strategies, as in the case of the parties within the Pan-Blue coalition, the presence of the TSU keeps the DPP from moving too far away from its
Taiwan independence roots. In local elections competition tends to be fierce between Pan-Green candidates from different parties and as a rule, joint candidates are not proposed.
The
Green Party Taiwan isn't part of the Pan-Green Coalition.
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