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

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]