Taipei Times
Date: Jul 03, 2015
By: Loa Iok-sin / Staff reporter
Senior Taiwanese independence campaigners yesterday announced that they are
![Political commentator and Taiwan Independence Action Party cofounder Chin Heng-wei poses in Taipei on Wednesday. Photo: Li Hsin-fang, Taipei Times](https://i1.wp.com/www.eyeontaiwan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/p03-150703-a4-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
Political commentator and Taiwan Independence Action Party cofounder Chin Heng-wei poses in Taipei on Wednesday. Photo: Li Hsin-fang, Taipei Times
establishing the Taiwan Independence Action Party (TIAP), saying that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been diverted from the independence movement.
Led by political commentator Chin Heng-wei (金恆煒), former presidential advisers Peng Ming-min (彭明敏) and Wu Li-pei (吳澧培), and former Presidential Office secretary-general Chen Shih-meng (陳師孟), the group delivered its application to register a new political party to the Ministry of the Interior.
Its objective is to get politicians supporting independence into the Legislative Yuan. [FULL STORY]