Freddy Lim

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Freddy Lim at Wacken Open Air 2012
Lim in March 2014 during the Sunflower Movement
Lims election campaign poster for the 2016 general election

Freddy Lim (also: Lim Tshiong-tso, Chinese  林 昶 佐 , Pinyin Lín Chǎngzuǒ , born February 1, 1976 in Taipei , Taiwan ) is a Taiwanese musician, activist and politician. He is the band leader of the extreme metal band Chthonic and co-founder of the New Power Party .

Career as a musician

Lim played and sang in student bands while he was still in high school. In 1995 he and other young musicians founded the extreme metal band Chthonic, of which he is still a band leader today. He is the lead singer when performing and plays erhu solos in some pieces . He sings mostly in Taiwanese , but also in Chinese and English (for music style, lyrics and discography of the band see article Chthonic ).

Political commitment

According to his own admission, Lim became interested in politics after graduating from high school. From 2010 to 2014 he was chairman of Amnesty International Taiwan. During the Sunflower Movement in spring 2014, he was publicly committed to the side of critics of the Kuomintang government. In January 2015, he and other activists founded the New Power Party (NPP), of which he was first chairman from January 25 to July 2, 2015.

In the Taiwanese parliamentary elections on January 16, 2016 , Lim won constituency 5 in his hometown Taipei and thus entered parliament as a member of parliament. Like his party, Lim campaigns for Taiwanese independence from China (see Taiwan conflict ) and strives to offer voters an alternative to the two dominant large parties, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). On August 1, 2019, Lim announced his resignation from the party and intended to run as an independent candidate in the upcoming 2020 legislative yuan election. The reason for Lim's resignation was internal party disagreements over the question of whether the NPP should support incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen again in the 2020 presidential election (as it did in 2016). In the election on January 11, 2020, Lim was re-elected in the Taipei-5 constituency, this time as a non-party candidate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chthonic's Freddy Lim , Metal Psalter Webzine, March 26, 2014 ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalpsalter.com
  2. ↑ Interview: Metal band singer Freddy Lim talks about politics Taipei Times, November 17, 2015
  3. ↑ Interview: Freddy Lim unfolds New Power Party Platform , Taipei Times, June 26, 2015
  4. ^ Taiwan heavy metal star stands for election , The Guardian, December 26, 2016
  5. ↑ Heavy metal star elected legislator , Focus Taiwan, January 16, 2016
  6. ^ Freddy Lim Leaves NPP to Run as Independent. The New Lens, August 1, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sean Lin: 2020 Elections: DPP maintains its legislative majority. Taipei Times, January 12, 2020, accessed January 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lim, Freddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 林 昶 佐 (Chinese); Lín Chǎngzuǒ (Chinese); Lim Tshiong-tso (Taiwanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese musician and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei , Taiwan