New Power Party facts for kids

Quick facts for kids New Power Party 時代力量
Leader	Claire Wang
Secretary	Bai Ching-feng [zh]
Policy-making Committee	Full list Chen Jiau-hua Claire Wang Chiu Hsien-chih Lin Yu-kai [zh] Chen Wei-chung [zh] Wu Wei-ta [zh] Wu Pei-yun [zh] Bai Ching-feng [zh] Chang Wei-hang [zh] Lai Chia-lun [zh] Peng Sheng-shao [zh] Chien Chih-hsiang [zh] Lin Yu-ting [zh] Liao Tzu-chi [zh] Chen Meng-hsiu
Founded	25 January 2015
Headquarters	Taipei City, Taiwan
Ideology	Taiwanese nationalism Taiwanese independence Progressivism (Taiwanese) Youth politics
Political position	Centre-left
Colours	Yellow, black
Legislative Yuan	0 / 113
Municipal mayors	0 / 6
Magistrates/mayors	0 / 16
Councillors	6 / 910
Township/city mayors	0 / 204
Website
www.newpowerparty.tw

The New Power Party (NPP) is a political party in Taiwan formed in early 2015. The party emerged from the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, and advocates for universal human rights, civil and political liberties, as well as Taiwan independence/nationalism. The party is a part of the political phenomenon known as the "Third Force" (第三勢力), in which new political parties, unaligned with traditional Pan-Green or Pan-Blue Coalitions, sought to provide an alternative in Taiwanese politics. Nevertheless, the NPP's policies are very much aligned with and closely match the Pan-Green camp; thus the NPP cooperated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the 2016 elections, going as far as not to run in traditional KMT strongholds to avoid competition with the DPP. The party works in tandem with a perceived generational shift towards Taiwan-centrism as the new socio-cultural norm.

The party was started by Freddy Lim, lead vocalist of Taiwanese heavy metal band Chthonic, veteran activist Michael Lin, human rights lawyers Lin Feng-cheng [zh], Chiu Hsien-chih, and other prominent figures of the Sunflower Student Movement. Lim headed the party-building process, which saw the inclusion of Hung Tzu-yung, sister of the late Hung Chung-chiu, environmental lawyer Ko Shao-chen [zh], and author-activist Neil Peng into the party. On 12 September 2015, the NPP was officially formed with the election of Huang Kuo-chang as executive leader, heading a leadership team of six deputy leaders.

The NPP won five legislative seats in the 2016 Taiwanese legislative election, three from constituency and two from party-list votes, beating out long-time third party People First Party. However, two of its legislators left the party in 2019. In the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election, NPP won three party-list seats.

Platform

The NPP aims to rewrite the Constitution of the Republic of China. The constitution operates under the assumption that the Republic governs all of China (including mainland China, which the ROC has not governed since 1949), to just refer to Taiwan.

The NPP supports the legalization of same-sex marriage and is generally in favor of abolition of capital punishment. The NPP also takes a more left-wing stance compared to the DPP on labor and welfare.

History

The party was established on 25 January 2015. In the 2016 Taiwanese legislative election, the first contested by the party, the NPP won five seats in the Legislative Yuan, making it the third largest party in the Ninth Legislative Yuan. Three of the candidates gained constituency seats and two were elected through the party list. Freddy Lim and Hung Tzu-yung left the NPP in August 2019, though both remained independent members of the Ninth Legislative Yuan and chose to align with the DPP. That same month, NPP legislator Kawlo Iyun Pacidal was suspended from the party. Kawlo, a party-list legislator, was replaced by Jang Show-ling in September 2019.

In the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election, the New Power Party won three party list seats, which elected Chen Jiau-hua, Chiu Hsien-chih, and Claire Wang as legislators of the Tenth Legislative Yuan.

The party lost all its seats in the 2024 legislative election, failing to reach the 5 percent threshold for the party-list seats.

Leadership

Order	Term	Executive Leader		Deputy Team Leader	Leadership Team	Assumed office	Left office
1	1		Freddy Lim	Lin Feng-cheng [zh]	Freddy Lim Neil Peng Hsu Yung-ming Lin Feng-cheng [zh] Michael Lin [zh] Huang Hsiu-chen (黃秀禎)	25 January 2015	2 July 2015
2			Huang Kuo-chang			2 July 2015	25 March 2016
	2				Freddy Lim Ko I-chen [zh] Kawlo Iyun Pacidal Lin Feng-cheng [zh] Michael Lin [zh]	25 March 2016	January 2019
3	3		Chiu Hsien-chih	Ko I-chen [zh]	Chiu Hsien-chih Freddy Lim Hung Tzu-yung Ko I-chen [zh] Lin Yu-kai [zh] Kawlo Iyun Pacidal Chen Hui-min Lee Bo-yi (李柏毅) Chen Wei-chung [zh] Sabrina Lim [zh] Chen Chih-ming [zh] Tseng Wen-hsueh (曾玟學) Hsu Yung-ming Lin Yi-ying Hsiao Hsin-cheng [zh] Tseng Wei-kai	1 March 2019	Freddy Lim left the party on 1 August 2019. Chiu resigned as party chief on 12 August 2019. Hung left the party on 13 August 2019. Kawlo's party membership was revoked on 2 September 2019.
4			Hsu Yung-ming			21 August 2019	Sabrina Lim (林亮君) left the party on 11 November 2019. Hsu was suspended on 1 August 2020, with Chiu Hsien-chih taking over as acting party chief.
5			Chiu Hsien-chih			1 August 2020 (acting)	Hsu resigned from the party on 5 August 2020. Chiu Hsien-chih later announced the whole committee has resigned for new election. Tseng Wen-hsueh resigned from the party on 23 August 2020.
6			Kao Yu-ting		Claire Wang Kao Yu-ting Chiu Hsien-chih Chen Jiau-hua Lin Yu-kai [zh] Lin Chia-wei [zh] Chang Wei-hang [zh] Chien Chih-hsiang [zh] Wu Wei-ta [zh] Bai Ching-feng [zh] Sung Kuo-ting [zh] Peng Sheng-shao [zh] Li Chao-li [zh] Lin Yi-ying Lin Yen-fu [zh] Liu yuh-sien [zh] Tseng Wei-kai	29 August 2020	Kao resigned as party chief and executive council on 17 November 2020.
7			Chen Jiau-hua			17 November 2020
	4				Chen Jiau-hua Claire Wang Chiu Hsien-chih Lin Yu-kai [zh] Chen Wei-chung [zh] Wu Wei-ta [zh] Wu Pei-yun [zh] Bai Ching-feng [zh] Chang Wei-hang [zh] Lai Chia-lun [zh] Peng Sheng-shao [zh] Chien Chih-hsiang [zh] Lin Yu-ting [zh] Liao Tzu-chi [zh] Chen Meng-hsiu	1 March 2021	28 February 2023
7	5		Claire Wang			1 March 2023

Secretary-General

1. Chen Hui-min (25 January 2015 – 1 March 2019)
2. Chen Meng-hsiu (1 March 2019 – 30 August 2019)
3. Wu Pei-yun (30 August 2019 – 1 March 2020)
4. Chen Chih-ming (1 March 2020 – 29 August 2020)
5. Kao Yu-ting (16 September 2020 – 17 November 2020)
6. Bai Ching-feng (since 17 November 2020)

Legislative Yuan leader (caucus leader)

• Hsu Yung-ming (1 February 2016 – 10 September 2019)
• Huang Kuo-chang (10 September 2019 – 31 January 2020)
• Chiu Hsien-chih (since 1 February 2020 – 31 January 2024)

Election results

Legislative elections

Election	Total seats won	Total votes (party-list)	Vote share (party-list)	Change	Election leader	Status	President
2016	5 / 113	744,315	6.11%	5 seats	Huang Kuo-chang	3rd Party	Tsai Ing-wen
2020	3 / 113	1,098,100	7.75%	2 seats	Hsu Yung-ming	4th Party
2024	0 / 113	353,670	2.57%	3 seats	Claire Wang	Did not represent	Lai Ching-te

Local elections

The New Power Party fielded 40 candidates for city and county councils across Taiwan in the local elections of November 2018. Sixteen NPP candidates for local office won.

The party nominated candidates for mayor and magisterial posts for the first time prior to the 2022 local elections.

See also

In Spanish: Partido del Nuevo Poder para niños

• Pan-Blue Coalition
• Pan-Green Coalition
• Pan-Purple Coalition
• List of political parties in Taiwan
• Politics of the Republic of China
• Formosa Alliance