Taiwanese People's Party
Taiwanese People's Party 臺灣民眾黨 | |
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| Founded | 10 July 1927 |
| Banned | August 1931 |
| Headquarters | Taichū, Japanese Taiwan |
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| Political position | Left-wing |
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺灣民眾黨 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 台湾民众党 | ||||||||||
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| Kanji | 臺灣民眾黨 | ||||||||||
| Kana | たいわんみんしゅうとう | ||||||||||
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The Taiwanese People's Party, founded in 1927, was nominally Taiwan's first political party, preceding the founding of the Taiwanese Communist Party by nine months. Initially a party with members holding moderate and conservative views, by the time of its banning, on 18 February 1931, it had become a solidly leftist, workers-oriented party. In a political atmosphere increasingly dominated by the rise of Japanese fascism, the party never participated in electoral politics.