Democratic Progressive Party
Which political party did Lin Cheng-chieh belong to from 1988 to 1991?
Lin Cheng-chieh Lin Cheng-chieh ( ; born 8 November 1952 ) is a Taiwanese politician . A tangwai activist for Taiwans democratization , he helped found the Democratic Progressive Party . After leaving the DPP in 1991 , he began supporting Pan-Blue Coalition political endeavors . Early life and education . Lins father Lin Kwun-rung was a Kuomintang spy . The government sent him to China in 1956 , where he was jailed until 1980 . Following his release , Lin Kwan-rung spent three years at his ancestral home in Fujian until , with the help of his wife , he returned to Taiwan in 1983 . Lin Cheng-chieh studied political science at Tunghai University , and attended graduate school at National Chengchi University . Political career . Lin was known as one of three musketeers of the tangwai movement , alongside Chen Shui-bian and Frank Hsieh . He ran as a tangwai candidate and won a seat on the Taipei City Council in 1981 . Lin won reelection in 1985 . The next year , the defendants involved in the Kaohsiung Incident began serving their prison sentences . Lin was credited with leading a protest calling for democratization , an action that became a catalyst for the establishment of the Democratic Progressive Party , of which Lin is a founding member . Months after the protest , Lin was stripped of his office upon being imprisoned in September on charges of libel . Lin accused Hu Yi-shou of financial impropriety . Alongside libel charges , Hu filed a second lawsuit against Lin , claiming that Lin had violated election law in his 1985 campaign . In February 1987 , Lins sentence was extended by eight months . Within the DPP , he led the Progress faction , a collective opposed to Taiwan independence . Lin left the DPP in June 1991 , shortly after Fei Hsi-ping and Ju Gau-jeng , leading the party to radicalize and openly support Taiwan independence . After leaving the DPP , Lin told Alan M . Wachman in July 1991 that [ I ] t is not necessarily the case that those who identify themselves as Taiwanese support Taiwan independence.. . I know a lot of socialists who support reunification . But they speak Taiwanese . They are not willing to speak Mandarin . Lin , who had been elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1989 under the DPP banner , served most of his first term and all of his second term as an independent , stepping down in 1996 . In September 1993 Lin founded the New Parliament Magazine , a newsletter-like publication with a Pan-Blue editorial line . Despite having left the Democratic Progressive Party , Lin served as deputy mayor of Hsinchu under fellow DPP founder James Tsai . Lin later became the chairman of the Chinese Unity Promotion Party . In August 2006 , Lin slapped and kicked Chin Heng-wei , editor of the magazine Contemporary Monthly , during a joint appearance on Formosa TV . He was widely criticized by Pan-Blue and Pan-Green political leaders . The Million Voices Against Corruption , President Chen Must Go campaign , a movement he had supported , forbid Lin from participating in a sit-in protest against Chen Shui-bian . However , Lin was permitted to attend a protest outside the Presidential Office led by the group in September . The Taipei District Prosecutors Office charged Lin with inflicting bodily harm on Chin Heng-wei in October 2006 , and Lin was eventually sentenced to a 50-day prison term . In August 2007 , Lin and others were indicted for their actions during the Presidential Office protest . Despite the indictment , Lin continued small protests against Chen by founding the Nine Nine Association . In December , he led a gathering of thirty people to protest the renaming of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall . When Chen stepped down from the presidency in 2008 , Lin petitioned Chens successor , Ma Ying-jeou , to bring corruption charges against Chen . During the 2016 presidential election , Lin supported Hung Hsiu-chus campaign . Personal . Lin was married to musician T . C . Yang .