--- description: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officially took charge of the island's parliament for the first time ever on Monday title: Taiwan's DPP Takes Control of Parliament for the First Time image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0eb020106a7a6cda/69887b882dce0169989e7992/rtx22nif.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Taiwan](/tag/taiwan/) ## Taiwan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party Takes Control of Parliament by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 1, 2016 9:21 AM CUT  Democratic Progressive Party chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, third from right, celebrates her election victory with other party members at the DPP's headquarters in Taipei on Jan. 16, 2016 Democratic Progressive Party chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, third from right, celebrates her election victory with other party members at the DPP's headquarters in Taipei on Jan. 16, 2016Damir Sagolj—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 1, 2016 9:21 AM CUT Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party created history on Monday, when it officially [took charge](http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201602010010.aspx "undefined") of the island’s parliament for the first time ever and saw one of its members elected to the post of Speaker. DPP politician Su Jia-chyuan assumed the leadership of the Legislative Yuan, as the Taiwanese legislature is known, with 74 of 113 votes from his fellow lawmakers, Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) reported. Su replaced [Wang Jin-pyng](http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-elects-first-dpp/2477454.html "undefined"), a member of the incumbent and hitherto dominant Kuomintang (KMT) party, who had served as Speaker for 17 years. The DPP, a pro-independence party whose leader [Tsai Ing-wen](http://time.com/3926330/the-next-president-of-taiwan/ "undefined") is set to become Taiwan’s next President following a [landslide election victory](http://time.com/4183442/china-taiwan-tsai-ing-wen-first-female-president/ "undefined") two weeks ago, holds 65 of the 113 parliamentary seats as compared with the KMT, which could only muster 35. \[[_CNA_](http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201602010010.aspx "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4202005/taiwan-democratic-progressive-party-dpp-parliament/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4202005/taiwan-democratic-progressive-party-dpp-parliament/"},"headline":"Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party Takes Control of Parliament","datePublished":"2016-02-01T09:21:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:37:41.059Z","description":"The party won a landslide election victory two weeks ago","url":"https://time.com/4202005/taiwan-democratic-progressive-party-dpp-parliament/","keywords":["Taiwan","Parliament"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0eb020106a7a6cda/69887b882dce0169989e7992/rtx22nif.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0eb020106a7a6cda/69887b882dce0169989e7992/rtx22nif.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Progressive Party Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (3rd R) celebrates her election victory with other party members at the party's headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan","caption":"Democratic Progressive Party Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (3rd R) celebrates her election victory with other party members at the party's headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan","creditText":"Damir Sagolj—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/taiwan/","name":"Taiwan"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4202005/taiwan-democratic-progressive-party-dpp-parliament/","name":"Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party Takes Control of Parliament"}}]}] ```