Third Society Party

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Third Society Party 第三社會黨 Dìsān Shèhuì Dǎng (Mandarin) Thi-sâm Sa-fi Tóng (Hakka)
Leader	Jou Yi-Cheng
Founded	July 15, 2007 (2007-07-15)
Dissolved	April 29, 2020 (2020-04-29)
Headquarters	Taipei, Taiwan
Ideology	Social democracy Progressivism Pro-Americanism
Political position	Centre-left
Politics of Taiwan Political parties Elections

The Third Society Party (TSP; Chinese: 第三社會黨; pinyin: Dìsān Shèhuì Dǎng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tē-saⁿ Siā-hōe Tóng) was a Taiwanese political party headed by Jou Yi-Cheng [zh], a former DPP member.

The TSP declared that it will not support any of the candidates fielded by the Pan-Greens or the Pan-Blues in the presidential election of 2008.

The position of the new party on Taiwanese national identity was that the Taiwanese community, comprising the 23 million people in Taiwan and its outlying islands, was an independent and sovereign nation, with the Republic of China as its constitutional name.

TSP had called for establishment of the country's "eighth constitutional reform"—or the "third republic" constitutional reform—calling for a parliamentary system of government; single-member constituency and two-vote electoral system; the holding of a nationwide referendum on the content of a new constitution; and lowering the threshold to initiate constitutional reforms.

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The new party, formally established in mid-July 2007, would field candidates in the next legislative elections scheduled for January 12, 2008, but it would not nominate any candidate for the upcoming presidential election, nor support the candidate of any party.

For the legislative elections, the party planned to focus on the second ballot, where a person votes for a party, rather than the first ballot for a candidate (referring to the voting process under the new "single-constituency, two-ballots" system, to be implemented in the January 2008 voting).

Thirteen people were on the first TSP list of potential legislative candidates, including Wu Rwei-ren (吳叡人), an assistant researcher with Academia Sinica's Institute of Taiwan History, Lee Ting-tsan (李丁讚), a professor with the Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, and also including scholars who were regarded as close to the DPP in stance.

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