taiwan changed from a oneparty military dictatorship to a multiparty democracy in the 1980s and early 1991
the panblue coalition composed of the prounification kuomintang kmt people first party pfp and new party generally support the spirit of the 1992 consensus where the kmt claimed that there is one china but that the roc and prc have different interpretations of what china means
 in 2008 referendums were held on the same day as the presidential election asking whether taiwan should join the un