Li Ao
In the 2000 presidential election, the party nominated writer and dissident Li Ao, who ran a spirited but token campaign. In the election, most members of the party supported former provincial governor James Soong, who ran as an independent candidate after losing the KMT nomination and subsequently being expelled from the KMT, and in fact both Li Ao and the New Party chairman Lee Ching-hua encouraged people to support him. In the 2001 Legislative Yuan election, the party only won 1 seat in Kinmen.