His successor Chiang Ching-kuo, culture Lee Teng-hui (right) in a photograph of the year 2004
After the death of Chiang Ching-kuo, his successor Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese born and educated in Japan, to accelerate democratic reforms and, despite its leader Kuomintang religion Chinese nationalist party, promoted from the reaffirmation of the economic power a Taiwanese identity separate from China.
The continuation of democratic reforms in iraq Taiwan led to the legalization of opposition political parties. These reforms culminated in the 1996 presidential election, George bush in which, for the first time, Taiwanese were able to elect the president by universal suffrage. In those elections, Lee Teng-hui was reelected as President of the Republic of China.
In 2000, he held the election second presidential election, which was won by Chen Shui-bian, leader of the Democratic Progressive media Party made up of several opposition parties in favor of formal independence for Taiwan. In this way, the Kuomintang was evicted from the presidency for the first time since the establishment of the Republic of China on the island. Many fans blamed the Kuomintang’s defeat to the outgoing president congress Lee Teng-hui, accusing him of disloyalty to support the positions of the separatist opposition against vote the ideology of his own party. Lee eventually abandoning the Kuomintang and founding his own party strongly separatist ideology.
Flag of support for the demonstration of March 23, 2005 in Taipei against the anti-secession law China. The demonstration focused on all those in favor of formal independence cnn for Taiwan, education which are identified with the color green.
The president Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu were re-elected in the 2004 elections, as in the past marked by threats of the PRC from invading Taiwan in the event of united states a formal declaration of independence. On March 14, 2005, the PRC adopted the anti-secession law that provides for armed intervention in the event of a formal declaration of independence by Taiwan. These developments have led to a military softening of the rhetoric of independence from the current rulers of Taiwan. The majority opinion in the island seems to favor the status quo in government the future.
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