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The DPP achieved considerable success in the 2001 elections, becoming the third largest party in the Folketing.
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DPP and considerable
The Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) gained considerable support in the 1990s through its reform agenda, even from those opposed to the DPP position on Taiwanese independence.
DPP and 2001
The DPP became the largest party having reached a plurality in the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 2002 following the 2001 legislative election.
Though losses in the 2001 legislative elections made the DPP the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan, the pan-blue coalition retained a narrow majority over the pan-green coalition.
In 2001, after the DPP presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian was elected, Peng was appointed a Senior Advisor to the Office of the President.
While the number of seats that the DPP and TSU gained was similar to that of 2001, many experienced and famous DPP and TSU legislators lost their seats.
In 2001, the DPP won 40 % of the seats even though they only polled 36 % of the vote, due in large part to the inability of the KMT, PFP, and New Party to coordinate their electoral strategies.
On October 20, 2001, the DPP passed a resolution elevating the status of the " 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future " in other words an attempt at making this resolution technically replace the DPP party charter's " Taiwan independence clause.
In January 2001, Hsiao announced her intention to run for the Legislative Yuan on the DPP ticket as a supplementary member representing overseas constituencies, citing her experience in international relations.
DPP and elections
The DPP suffered a significant election defeat in nationwide local and county elections in December 2005.
In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).
During the legislative elections held on 8 December 2004, the Kuomintang-PFP dominated Pan-Blue alliance gained a slim majority in the elections which resulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman.
( For the 2012 elections, only the KMT and DPP are eligible to nominate candidates under this method.
In the December 2005 3-in-1 local elections, the KMT made large gains and held 14 seats, the DPP suffered defeat and held only six, the PFP retained only one, and the TSU was completely shut out.
The TSU suffered defeat in the December 2005 local elections, along with its pan-green partner the DPP, and failed to win any municipal mayoral or county magistrate seats.
This had the effect of turning the May 14 elections into an opinion poll on relations with mainland China which was undesired by the Democratic Progressive Party, though the DPP subsequently gained a plurality in the elections.
" This, and other critical statements of the President, led to speculation that he would not back Chen again in the 2004 elections until he issued a statement of support for the DPP on March 17, 3 days before polls opened.
During the 2012 Republic of China Presidential elections, Lee expressed his support for DPP candidate Tsai Ing-Wen.
During the legislative elections held on 8 December 2004, the Kuomintang-PFP dominated Pan-Blue alliance gained a slim majority in the elections which resulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman.
After President Chen resigned as DPP Chairman following the 2004 legislative elections, he was elected the 10th-term DPP Chairman.
Following DPP losses in the 2005 municipal elections on December 3, Su announced that he would, pursuant to a pre-election promise, resign from the chairmanship.
In December 2004 the ROC Legislative elections, although the then ruling DPP party actually increased its share of votes in the legislature and remained the largest single party there, the pan-blue coalition maintained a razor-thin majority, which surprised many.
However, the PFP performed poorly in the December elections, and after the elections Soong ended any talk of a merger and began an effort to improve relations with the DPP.
Though defended by some other DPP members, Hsiao was not nominated to stand for reelection by the DPP in the January 2008 legislative elections, a move some attributed to be the result of that controversy.
DPP and third
In both the 2005 and the 2007 election the DPP kept its position as third largest in the Folketing and was thus able to maintain its substantial role in policy-setting through both the remainder of Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Liberal-Conservative government and through that of successor Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
The third person Chase Day, whose charges have since been withrawn by the DPP went to police midday the 21st November to report the murder.
DPP and party
The Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ; 民主進步黨 ) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition.
Founded in 1986, DPP is the first meaningful opposition party in Taiwan.
This movement culminated in the formation of the DPP as an alternative party on September 28, 1986.
Once the DPP had representation in the Legislative Yuan ( LY, Congress ), the party used the legislature as a forum to challenge the government.
" DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen followed with a public statement on behalf of the party: " In regard to Chen and his wife's decision to withdraw from the party and his desire to shoulder responsibility for his actions as well as to undergo an investigation by the party's anti-corruption committee, we respect his decision and accept it.
The DPP vowed to reflect on public misgivings towards the party.
The first years of the DPP as the ruling party drew accusations from the opposition that, as a self-styled Taiwanese nationalist party, the DPP was itself inadequately sensitive to the ethnographic diversity of Taiwan's population.
In 1999, accusations of nepotism were levied against the DPP after it was revealed that Kjærsgaard's husband, Henrik Thorup, had been paid by the party as an independent consultant for over two years.
The DPP refused to reveal Thorup's salary and defended its actions, claiming that Pia Kjærsgaard's husband was the right man for the job and that his employment had nothing to do with his marriage to the party leader.
Although still illegal, the KMT did not take action against the DPP and the party was legalized in 1991.
In 1986, the permission to form new political parties was granted, and the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) was inaugurated as the first opposition party.
As DPP Chairman, Hsu had moderated the platform of the party, promoting reconciliation with the People's Republic of China and the opening of direct links, a move, ironically, not supported by President Lee.
He remains the Chairman of the UDF, and after a dispute with his successor as President, Mutharika, the latter left the UDF and formed his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ), in February 2005.
Having failed twice in gaining DPP support for his presidential bid, first in 1996 when he lost the party primary to Peng Ming-Min and second in 1999 when the party threw its support behind the widely popular former mayor of Taipei City, Chen Shui-Bian, Hsu decided to withdraw from the DPP in 1999.
DPP and Folketing
As a DPP candidate, she won a seat in the Folketing, representing the Funen County constituency ( 6 October 1995 – 11 March 1998 ).
DPP and .
For the meaning of " assault " in this provision, see Logdon v. DPP Crim LR 121, DC.
He is generally unpopular among Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) voters and supporters.
In Connelly v DPP ( AC 1254 ), the Law Lords ruled that a defendant could not be tried for any offence arising out of substantially the same set of facts relied upon in a previous charge of which he had been acquitted, unless there are " special circumstances " proven by the prosecution.
The DPP is a member of Liberal International and a founding member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats.
The DPP and its affiliated parties are widely classified as " liberal " because of their strong human rights stance and endorsement of pluralistic democracy while their Kuomintang opposition, historically take a defensive posture on such issues, is generally viewed as " conservative.
The DPP has its roots in liberal opposition to Kuomintang one-party authoritarian rule.
The DPP supported reform of the Constitution that would make it official that Taiwan's national government represented only the people of Taiwan and made no claims to territory in mainland China or Mongolia.
The DPP won the presidency with the election of Chen Shui-bian in March 2000, ending more than half a century of KMT rule in Taiwan.
Su Tseng-chang resigned as DPP chairman soon after election results were announced.
Su had pledged to step down if the DPP lost either Taipei County or failed to win 10 of the 23 mayor / magistrate positions.
Vice President Annette Lu was appointed acting DPP leader.
Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.
The former DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang was appointed to replace Hsieh as premier.
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