Wu Den-yih

Wu Den-yih

Wu Den-yih ( Chinese  吳敦義 , Pinyin Wú Dūnyì , W.-G. Wu Ten-i , born January 30, 1948 in Caotun , Nantou County ) is a Taiwanese politician and former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT). From May 20, 2012 to May 19, 2016, he was Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) .

biography

Wu graduated from Taiwan National University with a bachelor's degree in history. After completing his military service, he worked as a journalist for the China Times from 1971 to 1973 . Wu Den-yih is married to Tsai Ling-yi and has three sons and a daughter.

Party offices

Wu was from 1989 to 1990 chairman of the Taipei Municipal Committee of the KMT. Between 1993 and 2000 he was a member of the Central Committee of the KMT and from 2007 to 2009 General Secretary and Deputy Party Chairman. From December 3, 2014 to January 17, 2015 he was the party's executive chairman. From August 20, 2017 to January 15, 2020, he was party chairman.

Political career

Wu began his political career in 1973 when he was elected to Taipei City Council. After eight years as a city council, he was from 1981 to 1989 district administrator of the Nantou district . He was then mayor of Kaohsiung from 1990 to 1998 , but lost the 1998 election campaign against Frank Hsieh . From 2002 to 2009, he was the Nantou County MP in the Republic of China's Parliament ( Legislative Yuan ). After Liu Chao-shiuan's government resigned on September 10, 2009, President Ma Ying-jeou appointed him Prime Minister.

In the 2012 presidential election , he ran alongside Ma Ying-jeou for the office of Vice President and took up this office on May 20, 2012. He was succeeded as Prime Minister in February 2012 by Sean Chen . After significant defeats by the Kuomintang in the Taiwanese local elections in 2014 and the subsequent resignation of Ma Ying-jeou from the post of party chairman, Wu was appointed executive party chairman of the Kuomintang on December 3, 2014 and held this position until the new party leadership was elected on December 17, 2014. January 2015. After Ying-jeou's defeat in the 2016 presidential election , Den-yih resigned from his position as vice president on May 19, 2016. His successor is the epidemiologist Chen Chien-jen .

On May 20, 2017, Wu was elected by the party base with 52.24% of the vote as the new party leader of the Kuomintang and took office at the party conference on August 20, 2017. After the clear defeat of the Kuomintang in the presidential election and the election of the Legislative Yuan on January 11, 2020, Wu resigned as party chairman on January 15.

Web links

• Brief portrait on the website of the President's Office ( memento from August 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Biography of Wu Den-yih. In: Want China Times. Retrieved January 4, 2011 . 
• Biography of Wu Den-yih. Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, archived from original on February 10, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2011 . 
• Biography of Wu Den-yih. Government Information Office, archived from the original on May 1, 2012 ; Retrieved January 4, 2011 (Government POV). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Taiwan Today - Prime Minister Wu Den-yih takes over the management of a converted cabinet" ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: taiwanheute.nat.gov.tw, accessed on March 31, 2019
2. ↑ Focus Taiwan, December 3, 2014
3. ↑ Austin Ramzy: Tsai Ing-wen Sworn In as Taiwan's President, as China Watches Closely. In: The New York Times , May 19, 2016 (English).
4. ↑ Wu Den-yih wins KMT chairman election , Focus Taiwan, May 20, 2017
5. ^ Taiwan ex-Vice President Wu Den-yih elected KMT leader in first round , Taiwan News, May 20, 2017
6. ↑ Yu Hsiang, Yeh Chen, Chiang Yi-ching: KMT chairman resigns amid heated calls for party reform. Focus Taiwan, January 15, 2020, accessed on January 16, 2020 (English). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Den-yih is the first name.