Hung Hsiu-chu

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Hung Hsiu-chu, 2015

Hung Hsiu-chu ( Chinese  洪秀柱 , Pinyin Hóng Xiùzhù ; born April 7, 1948 , former Taipei County, now New Taipei , Taiwan) is a politician and former party leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Republic of China (Taiwan) . Between July and October 2015, she was briefly her party's candidate for the 2016 presidential election .

Political career

Hung grew up on the island of Taiwan in the post-war period. After attending school in Taipei, she studied at the law department of the College of Chinese Culture (now Chinese Cultural University ) in Taipei and was , especially at the request of her father, who had suffered from the persecution of the " White Terror " in the 1950s subsequently worked as a lecturer and teacher at various schools. After the beginning of domestic (and also intra-party) democratization in the Republic of China, she was nominated and elected for the first time as a candidate for the KMT in 1989. She has been a member of the Legislative Yuan since then and was re-elected seven times in successive elections. Politically, it concentrated on the field of education policy. In the election to chair the KMT in 2007, she was defeated by her opponent Wu Poh-hsiung with 13 to 87 percent of the party votes. On February 1, 2012, Hung was elected Deputy Party Leader of the KMT and Vice-Speaker of Parliament for the Legislative Yuan and was the first woman to hold this post.

On July 19, 2015, the KMT elected 67-year-old Hung Hsiu-chu as the KMT's top candidate in the upcoming presidential election in 2016 at its party congress . Only three months later, however, as a result of persistently poor polls and strong criticism from within her own ranks, she was dismissed as a candidate at a special party congress on October 17, 2015 and replaced by party chairman Eric Chu .

After Chu's resignation as chairman of the KMT as a result of his defeat in the presidential election, Hung applied for the office of party chairman and on March 26, 2016, in the internal party election with 56.16% of the votes against the executive chairman Huang Min-hui (33 , 02%). At the rotating election of the party chairman on May 20, 2017, held the following year, Hung was defeated by her challenger Wu Den-yih , to whom she handed over her position after the Kuomintang party conference on August 20, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Legislative Yuan Republic of China. Ly.gov.tw, accessed April 30, 2014 .
  2. ^ Taiwan KMT gets new chairman. China Daily, April 8, 2007, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ June Tsai: Legislative Yuan president, vice president elected. Taiwan Today, February 2, 2012, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ KMT picks Hung Hsiu-chu as candidate for legislative deputy speaker. Taiwan News, January 20, 2012, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Hung Hsiu-chu officially KMT presidential candidate. Radio Taiwan International, July 19, 2015, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  6. ^ Taiwan election: KMT nomination sets up battle of women. BBC News, July 19, 2015, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  7. ↑ http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2015/10/17/448592/Hung-forced.htm Hung 'forced to accept' KMT's decision to replace her , The China Post, 17th October 2015
  8. ^ Victorius Hung Hsiu-chu vows to work for KMT's rebirth , Focus Taiwan, March 26, 2016
  9. ^ Taiwan ex-Vice President Wu Den-yih elected KMT leader in first round , Taiwan News, May 20, 2017
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Hung is the family name here, Hsiu-chu is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hung, Hsiu-chu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese presidential candidate and chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei County, now New Taipei City , Taiwan