Chang Po-ya

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Chang Po-ya (2017)

Chang Po-ya ( Chinese  張博雅 , Pinyin Zhāng Bóyǎ ; born October 5, 1942 in Kagi (now Chiayi ), Tainan Prefecture , now Taiwan) is a politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan) . She is the party founder and former party leader of the Unparty Solidarity Union (NPSU). Since July 30, 2014, she has been the President of the Kontroll-Yuan .

biography

Chang was born in Taiwan during the Japanese rule . She was the youngest of four daughters and also had two brothers. Her parents, Hsu Shih-hsien (許世賢) and Chang Chin-tung (張 進 通), were both doctors. The mother, Hsu Shih-hsien, played an important role in women's emancipation in Taiwan. She was the first native Taiwanese woman to earn a medical doctorate and worked as a doctor in Taiwan from the late 1930s. After Taiwan was taken over by the Republic of China, she was socially active and advocated women's rights. In 1969 and again in 1982 she was elected as an independent candidate for mayor of Chiayi , making her the first woman to head a major Taiwanese city.

The daughter, Chang Po-ya, studied medicine at Kaohsiung Medical University and Johns Hopkins University . After her mother died in 1983, Chang Po-ya ran for Chiayi mayor and was elected in 1983. She served from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2000 (between 1989 and 1997, Chang Po-ya's older sister Chang Wen-ying (張文英) was mayor of Chiayi). In 1993, she was - still without party - Minister of Health in the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of Prime Minister Lien Chan . During her tenure until 1997, she organized the difficult introduction of general health insurance in Taiwan.

In 2000 , after DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election , Chang Po-ya reluctantly accepted an invitation from Chen, who had offered her the post of interior minister in the new DPP-led government. In parallel with the Ministry of the Interior, she also assumed the post of governor of Taiwan Province . She held both offices until February 1, 2002. In 2002, President Chen tried to appoint her as vice chairman of the Examination Yuan , but this failed due to opposition from the Legislative Yuan. In 2003, Chang ran as a non-party candidate with the support of the Qinmindang for the post of mayor of Kaohsiung , but received only 1.75 percent of the vote.

The years of Chen Shui-bian's presidency were marked by a very strong political polarization between the pan-green and pan-blue camps. Chang Po-ya and other politicians felt the need to overcome this camp mentality and in 2004 founded a new party with aspirations for society as a whole, the Impartial Solidarity Union (NPSU). Chang Po-ya was elected first party leader. In the election for the legislative yuan in 2004 , the new party was able to achieve a respectable success, but in the period that followed, it lost a lot of political weight and votes.

President Ma Ying-jeou appointed Chang as his political advisor on January 1, 2009, and in late 2010 nominated her to chair the Taiwan Central Electoral Commission. On November 12, 2010, the nomination was confirmed by the Legislative Yuan with a majority of 69-2. A majority of the KMT MPs voted in favor, while all DPP MPs boycotted the election. On December 3, 2013, Chang was re-elected in this capacity by the Legislative Yuan with a majority of 65 to 42 votes. The MPs of the KMT voted for them and the DPP MPs against them.

On May 7, 2014, President Ma nominated her for the presidency of Control Yuan. In the Legislative Yuan, which had to confirm the appointment, however, there was criticism of Chang's nomination, which came not only from the ranks of the opposition DPP, but also from individual KMT MPs. The 29 new members of the control yuan proposed by President Ma were voted on on July 30, 2014. After boycott actions by the DPP and TSU MPs, the KMT leadership declared itself ready to lift the parliamentary group requirement when voting . With 57 votes in favor, 36 against and 14 invalid votes, Chang was elected President of the Control Yuan.

Chang Po-ya is married to Chi Chan-nan (紀展南) and has a son and a daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chiayi City Is Becoming a New Spot of the Literature Cities with Its Urban Culture. Chiayi City website (Office for Cultural Affairs), October 11, 2016, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Jen-feng Kuo: Women and Taiwanese Society. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Su Yui-chiang: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: V. 2: Twentieth Century . Ed .: Lily Xiao Hong Lee. Entry Hsü Shih-hsien , p. 233–236 (English, Google preview ).
  4. ↑ Prime Minister Lien Chan takes office with a new cabinet. T @ iwan today, March 1, 1993, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Jou Ying-cheng: Chiayi mayor takes Cabinet post. Taipei Times, April 19, 2000, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Lin Chieh-yu: Chang in spotlight since Chen talk. Taipei Times, September 5, 2004, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Blue camp on the rise. T @ iwan today, January 1, 2003, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  8. ^ Christian Schafferer: Local and National Elections in Taiwan . In: Christian Schafferer (Ed.): Recent Elections and Political Trends in East Asia . East Asia Books, 2004, ISBN 957-29397-1-8 , pp. 39–62 (English, online [PDF]).
  9. ↑ Debby Wu: Introducing the `non-party 'party. Taipei Times, November 20, 2004, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  10. ^ Legislative Yuan Confirms Chang Po-ya as Head of Central Election Commission. taiwannpfnews.org, November 15, 2010, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Wang Ching-yu, Lilian Wu: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201312030006.aspx. Focus Taiwan, December 3, 2013, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Stacy Hsu: CEC's Chang Po-ya nominated to head the Control Yuan. Taipei Times, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Chen Yan-ting, Tseng Wei-chen, Su Fun-her: Chang's Control Yuan bid in doubt. Taipei Times, June 15, 2014, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Alison Hsiao: Legislative Yuan rejects 11 Control Yuan nominees. Taipei Times, July 30, 2014, accessed February 3, 2018 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chang is the family name here, Po-ya is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Chang, Po-ya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 張博雅 (Chinese); Zhāng Bóyǎ (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Kagi (now Chiayi), Tainan Prefecture (now Taiwan), Japanese Empire