Chang Sho-wen explained

Chang Sho-wen
Native Name Lang:zh-tw
Nationality:Taiwanese
Office1:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Constituency1:Yunlin 2
Term Start1:1 February 2005
Term End1:30 June 2009
Successor1:Liu Chien-kuo
Birth Date:1971 5, df=y
Birth Place:Yunlin County, Taiwan

Chang Sho-wen (; born 7 May 1971) is a Taiwanese politician. He first won election to the Legislative Yuan in 2004 and was reelected in 2008. Partway through his second term, Chang was removed from office on charges of electoral fraud. He left the Kuomintang in 2015 and joined the People First Party.

Political career

Chang was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2004. During his 2004 campaign, he was questioned by Yunlin County prosecutors as part of a large investigation of vote buying.[1] Chang was allowed to take his seat on the legislature. During part of his first term, he was the secretary-general of the Kuomintang caucus.[2] [3] Chang has also been known to participate in fights on the legislative floor. In 2007, he threw a lunchbox at fellow legislator over a disagreement on amendments to the Farmers' and Fishers' Association Law.[4]

The next legislative elections were scheduled for 2007, but it was eventually decided to hold both the presidential and legislative elections closer together in 2008, a move Chang supported.[5] Chang was reelected, but the election result was challenged by Democratic Progressive Party opponent Liu Chien-kuo on 20 November 2008.[6] Annulment of the election was granted on 30 June 2009 by the Taiwan High Court, which upheld the ruling of the Yunlin District Court, despite Chang's appeal to the Control Yuan.[7] [8] Chang became the second lawmaker after Lee Yi-ting to lose his seat in the seventh session of the Legislative Yuan.[9] [10]

Chang's father Chang Hui-yuan tried to join the Kuomintang to run for his son's vacated seat, submitting the application on 17 July.[11] [12] The KMT chose not to accept it,[13] and Chang Hui-yuan ended his bid to join the political party,[14] choosing instead to run as an independent. The by-election, beset by another round of electoral fraud accusations,[15] was won by Democratic Progressive Party candidate Liu Chien-kuo in a three-way contest.[16] [17]

Chang Sho-wen led Sean Lien's Taipei mayoral campaign in 2014.[18] [19] However, Chang grew increasingly critical of the Kuomintang and chairman Ma Ying-jeou,[20] and the party officially expelled him on 15 July 2015,[21] though he had renounced his membership to join the People First Party in June.[22] [23] Chang was tabbed to run in New Taipei's 3rd district under the PFP banner, and lost.[24] He later served as director general of the People First Party and led its organization department.[25] [26] In November 2019, the People First Party ranked Chang the sixth at-large legislative candidate on its party list for the 2020 election.[27] [28]

Electoral results

2016 legislative election

Notes and References

  1. News: Chuang. Jimmy. Prosecutors interrogate suspects over vote-buying. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 9 December 2004.
  2. News: Chuang. Jimmy. Ko. Shu-ling. Wang. Flora. Chang. Rich. Chen Shui-bian chained. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 12 November 2008.
  3. News: Wang. Flora. Lawmakers look to pass voucher laws. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 20 November 2008.
  4. News: Shih. Hsiu-chuan. Pan-blues pass agriculture bills. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 12 May 2007.
  5. News: Peng. Hsien-chun. Lee. Ming-chien. DPP divided over party's plan for joint elections. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 1 January 2007.
  6. News: Election of KMT lawmaker Chang annulled. 15 June 2016. China Post. 1 July 2009.
  7. News: Wang. Flora. Chuang. Jimmy. Chang Sho-wen to stay away from vote in legislature. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 12 December 2008.
  8. News: Ex-lawmaker appeals. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 11 July 2009.
  9. News: Chang Sho-wen perd son siège au parlement pour fraude électorale. 15 June 2016. Taiwan Today. 1 July 2009. French.
  10. News: Court Annuls Election of KMT Legislator Chang Sho-wen. 3 August 2016. Kuomintang News Network. 1 July 2009.
  11. News: Mo. Yan-chih. Chang Sho-wen's father to stand in Yunlin election. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 18 July 2009.
  12. News: Mo. Yan-chih. Father of convicted KMT lawmaker plans election bid. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 17 July 2009.
  13. News: Wang. Flora. Ex-lawmaker appeals for father. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 21 July 2009.
  14. News: Mo. Yan-chih. Hsu. Jenny W.. KMT member quits to run in Yunlin. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 31 July 2009.
  15. News: Ko. Shu-ling. Borough warden held on suspicion of vote-buying. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 21 September 2009.
  16. News: Ko. Shu-ling. Death threat linked to Yunlin election reported to police. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 22 September 2009.
  17. News: DPP wins Yunlin by-election in a landslide. Taiwan Today. 28 September 2009.
  18. News: Hsiao. Alison. More KMT legislators may quit. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 1 July 2015.
  19. News: Hsiao. Alison. Ma resigns as chairman of KMT. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 4 December 2014.
  20. News: Hsiao. Alison. Former official says he would quit party if Wang Jin-pyng runs on KMT ticket. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 2 March 2015.
  21. News: Shih. Hsiu-chuan. KMT expels five vocal critics of party. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 16 July 2015.
  22. News: Hsiao. Alison. Soong mulls presidential run. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 2 July 2015.
  23. News: Shih. Hsiao-kuang. Chen. Yan-ting. PFP 'challenges' KMT with nominations. 15 June 2016. Taipei Times. 13 July 2015.
  24. News: Su. Fang-ho. Chen. Yen-ting. Chung. Jake. DPP criticizes Hung over her 'lack of political grace'. 15 June 2016. 20 July 2015.
  25. News: Lin. Hsin-han. Chung. Jake. PFP's Liu Wen-hsiung in a coma after heart attack. 22 July 2017. Taipei Times. 22 July 2017.
  26. News: Maxon . Ann . Gou welcomes Soong collaboration . 29 August 2019 . Taipei Times . 29 August 2019.
  27. News: Kuo . Chien-sheng . Huang . Frances . 2020 Elections: PFP taps Terry Gou aides as lawmakers-at-large . 21 November 2019 . Central News Agency . 20 November 2019.
  28. News: Shan . Shelley . Terry Gou's political influence carries on in People First Party . 21 November 2019 . Taipei Times . 21 November 2019.

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