Recent Attempts At Forming A Communist Party
After the lifting of martial law in 1987, attempts have been made to re-establish a legal party of the same name. However, these applications to the Republic of China Ministry of the Interior were rejected on the grounds that Article 2 of the Civic Organization Law forbids civic organizations and activities from promoting communism.
The Communist Party of China, too, has shown no recent interest in promoting communism on Taiwan, and as of 2005, most of its efforts are directed at promoting Chinese nationalism on Taiwan and this has led to increasingly warm relations with the Pan-Blue Coalition. Nevertheless, in 2000 one Dai Chung, a Taiwanese resident, self-proclaimed a "Taiwan Province branch" of the Communist Party of China without applying for official status as a political party and without any support or interest from the Communist Party of China.
The Taiwan Communist Party was legally formed on July 20, 2008, one month after the Judicial Yuan declared Article 2 unconstitutional. Unlike Dai Chung, it has no intentions on forming relations with the Chinese party. On March 31, 2009 the Communist Party of the Republic of China (中華民國共產黨) was formed after approximately a year after the formation of Taiwan Communist Party and have formal relation with the Communist Party of China.
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