The Chairman of the Kuomintang is the leader of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Ta ...

in the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

. The position used to be titled as President (1912–1914), Premier (1919–1925), Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (1925–1938), Director-General (1938–1975), and Chairman (from 1975). The post is currently held by

Eric Chu Eric Chu Li-luan (; born on 7 June 1961) is a Taiwanese politician. He was born into a political family with strong Kuomintang (KMT) ties, and served as Vice Premier of the Republic of China, under Premier Wu Den-yih. Prior to this, Chu served ...

, who assumed the post on 5 October 2021, following the tenth direct

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operat ...

of the party leadership. The Chairman is now directly elected by party members for a term of four years and may be re-elected for a second term.

List of party leaders

Presidents (1912–1914)

Premier (1919–1925)

Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee (1925–1938)

Director-General (1938–1975)

Chairpersons (from 1975)

List of deputy party leaders

Vice Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (1935–1938)

Vice Directors-General (1938–1939; 1957–1965)

Vice Chairmen (from 1993)

Timeline

References

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