Huang Kuo-chang

He has chaired the Taiwan People's Party since 2025 and sat in the Legislative Yuan in 2016-2020 and 2024-2026. The TPP named him its New Taipei mayoral candidate in February 2026, but he later backed the Kuomintang's Lee Shu-chuan, who won a joint poll in April 2026 and so did not stand as the joint candidate.

Career

Huang earned an LL.B. at National Taiwan University in 1995 and a J.S.D. at Cornell Law School in 2002. He taught law at the National University of Kaohsiung (2002-2006) and was a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Jurisprudence (2010-2015). He was a prominent figure in the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement. He led the New Power Party from 2015 to 2019, sat in the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020, moved to the Taiwan People's Party in 2023, returned to the legislature in 2024 and became TPP chairman on 1 January 2025. His legislative term ran to 2026.

Positions

Huang leads a party that Wikipedia places at the centre-left and that stresses social-democratic policy, net-zero by 2050 and neutrality between the unification and independence camps. He opposed the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement in 2014. In 2026 he committed his party to cooperation with the Kuomintang in local elections: after Lee Shu-chuan won the joint poll in April he pledged to support her campaign, and Taipei Times reports the TPP will not field candidates against Kuomintang incumbents.

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