Pan-Red Coalition

  

Pan-Red Coalition
Chairperson	Dou Zhecheng
Party leaders	Dou Zhecheng (CSDP) Yang Zongwu (CCP) Sun Wenda (CLP)
Founded	25 January 2022
Newspaper	Voice of the People
Ideology	Democratic socialism Socialist patriotism Left-wing populism Left-wing nationalism Internal factions: Left-wing populism Chinese communism Syndicalism Postcapitalism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
Coalition partners	Social Democrats Communist Party Labor Party
Official colours	Red
Legislative Yuan	117 / 870
Politics of China Political parties Elections

The Pan-Red Coalition is a left-wing socialist political coaliton and electoral alliance between the left-wing political parties that currently hold seats within the Legislative Yuan. Founded on January 25, it was formed after the 2022 Chinese legislative election and is a coalition between the China Social Democratic Party, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese Labor Party who sought to form an alliance to consolidate the influence and presence that the Chinese left has in legislative and national politics. Since its creation, it's one of three main electoral alliances within the Legislative Yuan along with the governing conservative Pan-Blue Coalition and the progressive opposition Pan-Green Coalition

The coalition's main leader is chair Dou Zhecheng of the Social Democratic Party due to his party holding the largest seats of the coalition.

History

Following the 2022 legislative election, the Kuomintang had won the largest plurality of seats in the Legislative Yuan at 317, but was short of a majority and negotiated with the New Party of China and the Democratic Party of Socialists to form a coalition government that would support many of the conservative policies that all three parties support, even the DPS despite its more left-wing ideological leanings with the DPS' social conservatism leading to the collapse of the previous government under Lin Renjian. This lead to the creation of the conservative Pan-Blue Coalition and would inspire the formation of the Pan-Green Coalition a day later between the Democratic Progressive Party and the Green Party. Wanting to consolidate its support and rally the Chinese left to a unified electoral coalition, the Social Democrats began negotiating with the Communist, and Labor parties and convinced them to join the SDP in forming a left-wing socialist electoral alliance announcing its formation on January 25.

Composition

Member parties

Party			Abbr.	Ideology	Political position	Leader
		Social Democratic Party 中國民主社會黨	CSDP	Democratic socialism Left-wing populism	Left-wing	Dou Zhecheng
		Chinese Communist Party 中國共產黨 Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng	CCP	Chinese communism Socialist patriotism	Far-left	Yang Zongwu
		Chinese Labor Party 中國勞動黨	CLP	Socialism Left-wing populism	Far-left	Sun Wenda

See also

• Pan-Blue Coalition
• Pan-Green Coalition