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III. Political Associations

By the end of 2017, a total of 334 (6 of them were disincorporated or revoked) political parties had
registered their organizations with the MOI while there were a total of 59 registered political associations

(9 of them were converted into political parties, social associations or disincorporated). Political Parties
Act was promulgated by President in December 2017, according to Article 43, political parties shall revise
their organizations and charters within two years following the enactment of this Act, political associations
shall revise their charters and be converted into political parties or adopt a resolution for dissolution by

general meeting of members.

IV. Elections

1. Elections of Central-level Representatives, President and Vice President

Following the adoption of the Constitution of the ROC, the first term national assemblymen,
legislators and Control Yuan members were elected in 1947. Subsequently, the fall of the Mainland
made further balloting for these centrally elected representatives impossible. In order to cope with

such changes, the President established a series of rules and regulations in 1968. These rules included
relevant laws, in accordance with the authorization of the "Temporary Provisions Effective during the
Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion." Elections of additional
and supplementary officials were conducted in 1969. According to the Constitutional Interpretation No.
261, all of the first term senior central-level representatives retired on December 31, 1991. The second

term national assemblymen were then elected in the same year in accordance with the "Additional
Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China." The second term of legislators was elected in
1992. Control Yuan members were since then nominated by the President and had to be approved by

the National Assembly. Based on the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the ROC in April 2000,
the National Assemblymen were then elected on demand. According to the Additional Articles of the
Constitution of the ROC in June 2005, the National Assembly was abolished and national assemblymen
thus ceased to be elected. Beginning from the Seventh Legislative Yuan, the number of seats was
reduced to 113, and legislators since then serve a term of 4 years and are elected under a "single-

district, two-vote system" (A mixture of the "Single-winner System" and the "Two Votes System").
Elections of National Assemblymen and Legislators are shown in Table 2-1.

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