Lin Yang-kang

Lin Yang-kan

Lin Yang-kang ( Chinese  林洋港 , Pinyin Lín Yánggǎng ; born June 10, 1927 near the Sun and Moon Lake , Taiwan , then Taichū Prefecture , Japanese Empire ; † April 13, 2013 in Taichung ) was a politician in the republic China (Taiwan) .

biography

Lin Yang-kang was born in a small village in what is now Nantou County during the Japanese rule of Taiwan . He graduated from National Taiwan University (NTU) and earned a bachelor's degree in science. From 1964 to 1967 he worked in the Taiwan Province Administration . At the same time he was politically active in the Kuomintang (KMT) and from 1964 to 1967 chairman of the KMT party committee in Yunlin County . From February 1, 1967 to June 16, 1972 he was the district administrator of the Nantou district. At the same time, he was district chairman of the KMT in Nantou. 1972 to 1976 he worked again in the provincial administration in the department for reconstruction. From 1972 to 1976 he was mayor of Taipei and during this time he was largely responsible for the decision to build the Feicui Dam , from 1976 to 1978 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and from 1978 to 1993 a member of the Standing Central Committee of the KMT.

From 1978 to 1981 he held the post of governor of Taiwan Province, from 1981 to 1984 he was Minister of the Interior and Vice Prime Minister from 1984 to 1987 in the last years of the Chiang Ching-kuo presidency . 1987 to 1994 he served as President of the Judicial Yuan .

When the end of Chiang Ching-kuo's presidency was in sight due to its morbidity , Lin was seen by some as his potential successor. Instead, Chiang chose Lee Teng-hui as his vice-president, who promptly succeeded Chiang as president in 1987. Unlike the vast majority of the Kuomintang elite at the time, Lin was not born in mainland China, but on the island of Taiwan . Nevertheless, he did not belong to the so-called mainstream wing of the Kuomintang, which from the beginning of the 1990s, under the leadership of Lee, established itself within the Kuomintang party organization. The policy Lees, the slowly increasing Taiwanization drove forward with Hinantstellung the goal of reunification with mainland China, was Lin and other members of the non-mainstream seen -Flügels the KMT with suspicion. In the 1990 presidential election by the National Assembly (which at that time was still dominated by the MPs elected in 1946 on the mainland), the conservative wing of the KMT wanted to nominate Lin as an opposing candidate to Lee Teng-hui. The candidate for the vice presidency should be Chiang Wei-kuo , Chiang Kai-shek's half-brother . However, Lee clearly won the election.

In the run-up to the 1996 presidential election , the first direct election of a president in Taiwan, Lin was nominated as its candidate by the Xindang (the "New Party", which was founded as a conservative split from the Kuomintang in 1993). He chose Hau Pei-tsun as a candidate for the vice-presidency. Because both Lin and Hau had violated party discipline (the official candidate of the KMT was Lee Teng-hui), they were expelled from the KMT on December 13, 1995. The duo Lin-Hau then continued their candidacy with the support of Xindang and received almost 15% of the vote in the 1996 election.

Lin has not held any major political office since 1996. In 2005 he (like Hau) returned to the Kuomintang.

Lin died in 2013 at the age of 87 from multiple organ failure in his home in Taichung.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Executive Yuan (ed.): Who's who in the ROC . LIN, YANG-KANG 林洋港, S. 424 (English, pdf ).
2. ↑ 南投 縣 歷任 縣長 ("District administrators who presided over Nantou County"). County government website, accessed November 28, 2018 (Chinese). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mo Yan-chih: Former presidential adviser Lin Yang-kang dies at 87th Taipei Times, April 15, 2013, accessed November 28, 2018 . 
4. ↑ “Taipei Spring”? - Anachronistic process, but Lee promises reforms . In: Taiwan Communiqué . No. 44 , April 1990, ISSN  1027-3999 (English, PDF ).
5. ↑ Taiwan's ruling party expels Lin, Hau. upi.com, December 13, 1995, accessed November 28, 2018 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lin is the family name here, Yang-kang is the first name.