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Taipei - Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) was leading Saturday in the island's parliamentary elections seen as a crucial indicator ahead of the March presidential race. Two hours into the vote count at 6 pm (1000 GMT) with about 40 per cent of the votes counted, initial results showed the KMT was leading in various of the 75 constituencies across the island. There are 79 district seats and 34 party seats in the 113-seat parliament.
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The Economist (US); 8/21/1993; 729 words; IT IS tempting to believe that the rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan is coming to an end. political freedom may be doubtful. But this is not yet the moment to write off the Kuomintang.
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The Kuomintang now has its first outright majority in the legislature in more than a decade, though in recent years it has narrowly controlled the body through alliances with smaller parties. A victory for Mr. Ma in March would create a unified government and break the gridlock that has slowed policymaking during Mr. Chen's tenure. "With a unified government, it'd be easier for the government to push through reforms, including more fiscal spending, cross-strait reforms," said Frederic Neumann, a Hong Kong-based economist for HSBC. He expects Taiwan's economic growth to slow to about 4% this year – analysts estimate it grew by more than 5% in 2007 – but says he will raise that forecast if Mr. Ma wins in March.
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![Lien Chan [middle] and Wu Po-hsiung [second left] and the Kuomintang touring the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, the People's Republic of China. The Pan-Blue coalition visited the mainland in 2005.](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/k/u/o/kuomintang/i/004.jpg)
On March 28, 2005, thirty members of the Kuomintang (KMT), led by KMT vice chairman Chiang Pin-kung, arrived in mainland China. This marked the first official visit by the KMT to the mainland since it was defeated by communist forces in 1949 (although KMT members including Chiang had made individual visits in the past). The delegates began their itinerary by paying homage to the revolutionary martyrs of the Tenth Uprising at Huanghuagang. They subsequently flew to the former ROC capital of Nanjing to commemorate Sun Yat-sen. During the trip KMT signed a 10-points agreement with the CPC. The opponents regarded this visit as the prelude of the third KMT-CPC cooperation.
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Kuomintang[kwO´mintang´] Pronunciation Key, [Chin.,=national people's party]. Sung Chiao-jen organized this party in 1912 under the nominal leadership of Sun Yat-sen to succeed the Revolutionary Alliance. The original Kuomintang program called for parliamentary democracy and moderate socialism. In 1913, YUan Shih-kai, the president of China, suppressed the Kuomintang although it held a majority in the first national assembly. Under Sun Yat-sen, the party established unrecognized revolutionary governments at Guanzhou in 1918 and 1921 and even sent a delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. Sun accepted aid from the USSR, and after 1922 many Comintern agents, notably Michael Borodin and V. K. BlUcher, helped reorganize the Kuomintang.
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In 1949, Taiwan's Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) was defeated by the communists and fled from the mainland to Taiwan. At that time the party's future looked dim. Recently there is pessimism in the party not heard since those days. Thrown out of power for the first time in the March 2000 election, KMT is facing another crisis. This seems odd for a party that in the 1960s and after produced the Taiwan "economic miracle." For a couple of decades Taiwan was the world's fastest growing economy.
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