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Kuomintang of China

Kuomintang
中國國民黨
Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng
Chairperson Hung Hsiu-chu
Secretary-General Mo Tien-hu
Founded October 10, 1919; 97 years ago (1919-10-10)
Preceded by Tongmenghui (1905)
Nationalist Party (1912)
Chinese Revolutionary Party (1914)
Headquarters No.232~234, Sec. 2, BaDe Rd., Zhongshan District, Taipei, Republic of China
Newspaper Central Daily News,
Kuomintang News Network
Think tank National Policy Foundation
Youth wing Kuomintang Youth League
Membership  (2017) 899,668
Ideology Chinese nationalism
Three Principles of the People
Republicanism
Constitutionalism
Conservatism
Chinese reunification
Political position Centre-right to Right-wing
National affiliation Pan-Blue Coalition
International affiliation Centrist Democrat International,
International Democrat Union
Colours      Blue
Legislative Yuan
35 / 113
Municipal Mayoralties
1 / 6
City Mayoralties and County Magistracies
5 / 16
Local Councillors
386 / 906
Township Chiefs
80 / 211
Party flag
Naval Jack of the Republic of China.svg
Website
www.kmt.org.tw
Kuomintang
KMT (Chinese characters).svg
"Kuomintang (Guómíndǎng)" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaning "China Nation-People Party"
Abbreviated to
Traditional Chinese 國民黨
Simplified Chinese 国民党
Tibetan name
Tibetan ཀྲུང་གོའི་གོ་མིན་ཏང

The Kuomintang (/ˌɡwmɪnˈdɑːŋ/ or /-ˈtæŋ/,KMT; also spelled as Guomindang /ˌɡwmɪnˈdɑːŋ/, GMD by its pinyin transliteration; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China or Chinese Nationalist Party) is a major political party in the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan. It is currently the second-largest in the country.

The predecessor of the KMT, the Revolutionary Alliance, was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of a republic. The KMT was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. Sun was the provisional president but he did not have military power and ceded the first presidency to the military leader Yuan Shikai. After Yuan's death, China was divided by warlords, while the KMT was able to control only part of the south. Later led by Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT formed the National Revolutionary Army and succeeded in its Northern Expedition to unify much of China in 1928. It was the ruling party in mainland China from 1928 until its retreat to Taiwan in 1949 after being defeated by the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the Chinese Civil War. In Taiwan, the KMT continued as the single ruling party until the reforms in the late 1970s through the 1990s loosened its grip on power. Since 1987, the Republic of China is no longer a single-party state; however, the KMT remains one of the main political parties. The KMT is currently the main opposition party in the Legislative Yuan.


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