Taiwan Communist Party

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Taiwan Communist Party
台灣共產黨
Leader Wang Lao-yang
Founded July 20, 2008[1]
Ideology Communism
Taiwan Communist Party
Simplified Chinese 台湾共产党
Traditional Chinese 台灣共產黨 or 臺灣共產黨

The Taiwan Communist Party (Chinese: 台灣共產黨 or 臺灣共產黨) is a political party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) established legally on July 20, 2008 at Xinhua, Tainan County (now part of Tainan City).[2] The founder and chairperson of the party is Wang Lao-yang (王老養),[3] He had tried to found a communist party since 1994, but the promotion of communism in Taiwan was illegal until the Justices of the Constitutional Court of Judicial Yuan announced that prohibiting communism and separatism is unconstitutional on June 20, 2008.[4] Officially, the party has no subordinate relations with the Communist Party of China which is based in the People's Republic of China.[3]

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Notes

  1. ^ The political party has not announced an official English name.

References

  1. "List of political parties" (in Chinese). Department of Civil Affairs, ROC. Retrieved 2008-08-17. 
  2. "台灣共產黨申請14年後獲准成立" (in Chinese). BBC Chinese.com. 2008-07-21. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "臺灣共產黨歷經14年申請終於成立" (in Chinese). 北京新浪網. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 
  4. "釋字第 644 號" (in Chinese). Justices of Constitutional Court, Judicial Yuan, ROC. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 

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