Founding a political party is far easier than dissolving one under current rules.

The News Lens
Date: 2017/12/26
By: If Lin

photo credit: 內政部

Between the drama of the Kuomintang (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), its easy to forget that Taiwan has an alphabet soup of other politicians and parties waiting in the wings. There are 319 political parties currently active in Taiwan, half of which were formed within the past eight years.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan has 324 registered political parties, five of which have ever been dissolved. The figure below shows the roster of registered political parties; the first was the China Zhonghe Party (中國中和黨) formed on April 5, 1894, followed a few months later by the KMT. After a long pause during decades of war and military rule, the next party to be formed was the DPP in 1986.    [FULL  STORY]