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<title>
Taiwan: Government
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Taiwan
Government</hdr><body>
<list>
<l>Names:</l>
<l> conventional long form: none</l>
<l> conventional short form: Taiwan</l>
<l> local long form: none</l>
<l> local short form: T'ai-wan</l>
</list>
<p>Digraph: TW
</p>
<p>Type: multiparty democratic regime; opposition political
parties legalized in March, 1989
</p>
<p>Capital: Taipei
</p>
<p>Administrative divisions: some of the ruling party in Taipei
claim to be the government of all China; in keeping with that
claim, the central administrative divisions include 2 provinces
(sheng, singular and plural) and 2 municipalities* (shih,
singular and plural) - Fu-chien (some 20 offshore islands of
Fujian Province including Quemoy and Matsu), Kao-hsiung*,
T'ai-pei*, and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores
islands); the more commonly referenced administrative divisions
are those of Taiwan Province - 16 counties (hsien, singular and
plural), 5 municipalities* (shih, singular and plural), and 2
special municipalities** (chuan-shih, singular and plural);
Chang-hua, Chia-i, Chia-i*, Chi-lung*, Hsin-chu, Hsin-chu*,
Hua-lien, I-lan, Kao-hsiung, Kao-hsiung**, Miao-li, Nan-t'ou,
P'eng-hu, P'ing-tung, T'ai-chung, T'ai-chung*, T'ai-nan,
T'ai-nan*, T'ai-pei, T'ai-pei**, T'ai-tung, T'ao-yuan, and
Yun-lin; the provincial capital is at Chung-hsing-hsin-ts'un
</p>
<p>note: Taiwan uses the Wade-Giles system for romanization
</p>
<p>Constitution: 25 December 1947, presently undergoing revision
</p>
<p>Legal system: based on civil law system; accepts compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
</p>
<p>National holiday: National Day, 10 October (1911) (Anniversary
of the Revolution)
</p>
<p>Political parties and leaders: Kuomintang (KMT, Nationalist
Party), LI Teng-hui, chairman; Democratic Progressive Party
(DPP); China Social Democratic Party (CSDP); Labor Party (LP)
</p>
<p>Other political or pressure groups: Taiwan independence
movement, various environmental groups
</p>
<p>note: debate on Taiwan independence has become acceptable
within the mainstream of domestic politics on Taiwan; political
liberalization and the increased representation of the
opposition Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan's legislature
have opened public debate on the island's national identity;
advocates of Taiwan independence, both within the DPP and the
ruling Kuomintang, oppose the ruling party's traditional stand
that the island will eventually unify with mainland China; the
aims of the Taiwan independence movement include establishing a
sovereign nation on Taiwan and entering the UN; other
organizations supporting Taiwan independence include the World
United Formosans for Independence and the Organization for Taiwan
Nation Building
</p>
<p>Suffrage: 20 years of age; universal
</p>
<p>Elections:
</p>
<p> President: last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held NA March
1996); results - President LI Teng-hui was reelected by the
National Assembly
</p>
<p> Vice President: last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held NA
March 1996); results - LI Yuan-zu was elected by the National
Assembly
</p>
<p> Legislative Yuan: last held 19 December 1992 (next to be
held near the end of 1995); results - KMT 60%, DPP 31%,
independents 9%; seats - (304 total, 161 elected) KMT 96, DPP
50, independents 15
</p>
<p> National Assembly: first National Assembly elected in
November 1946 with a supplementary election in December 1986;
second and present National Assembly elected in December 1991;
seats - 403 total, KMT 318, DPP 75, other 10; (next election to
be held in 1997)
</p>
<p>Executive branch: president, vice president, premier of the
Executive Yuan, vice premier of the Executive Yuan, Executive
Yuan
</p>
<p>Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Yuan and unicameral
National Assembly
</p>
<p>Judicial branch: Judicial Yuan
</p>
<p>Leaders:
</p>
<p> Chief of State: President LI Teng-hui (since 13 January
1988); Vice President LI Yuan-zu (since 20 May 1990)
</p>
<p> Head of Government: Premier (President of the Executive
Yuan) LIEN Chan (since 23 February 1993); Vice Premier (Vice
President of the Executive Yuan) HSU Li-teh (since 23 February
1993)
</p>
<p>Member of: expelled from UN General Assembly and Security
Council on 25 October 1971 and withdrew on same date from other
charter-designated subsidiary organs; expelled from IMF/World
Bank group April/May 1980; seeking to join GATT; attempting to
retain membership in INTELSAT; suspended from IAEA in 1972, but
still allows IAEA controls over extensive atomic development,
APEC, AsDB, ICC, ICFTU, IOC
</p>
<p>Diplomatic representation in US: none; unofficial commercial
and cultural relations with the people of the US are maintained
through a private instrumentality, the Coordination Council for
North American Affairs (CCNAA) with headquarters in Taipei and
field offices in Washington and 10 other US cities
</p>
<p>US diplomatic representation: unofficial commercial and
cultural relations with the people of Taiwan are maintained
through a private institution, the American Institute in Taiwan
(AIT), which has offices in Taipei at #7, Lane 134, Hsiu Yi Road,
Section 3, telephone [886] (2) 709-2000, and in Kao-hsiung at #2
Chung Cheng 3d Road, telephone [886] (7) 224-0154 through 0157,
and the American Trade Center at Room 3207 International Trade
Building, Taipei World Trade Center, 333 Keelung Road Section 1,
Taipei 10548, telephone [886] (2) 720-1550
</p>
<p>Flag: red with a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side
corner bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays
</p></body></article></text>