Chou Chun-mi explained

Chou Chun-mi
Office1:13th Magistrate of Pingtung
Term Start1:25 December 2022
Predecessor1:Pan Men-an
Office2:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Term Start2:1 February 2016
Term End2:25 December 2022
Successor2:Chen Ching-min
Constituency2:Party-list (Democratic Progressive Party)
Birth Date:1966 11, df=y
Birth Place:Pingtung City, Pingtung County, Taiwan
Nationality:Taiwan
Party:Democratic Progressive Party
Alma Mater:National Taiwan University

Chou Chun-mi (; born 1 November 1966) is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who is currently Magistrate of Pingtung County, serving since 2022. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she served in the Legislative Yuan from 2016 until 2022.

Personal life, education and early career

Chou was born on 1 November 1966,[1] [2] to a political family in Pingtung County.[3] Her father, Chou Hui-huang (周輝煌), was affiliated with the Kuomintang and served on the Pingtung County Council in the 1970s.[4] Chou obtained her bachelor's degree in law from National Taiwan University.[5] She was a judge for seven years in the Pingtung and Kaohsiung district courts,[5] [6] and a lawyer for fifteen. During her legal career, Chou often provided counsel to the DPP. She also represented families of people drowned in the Shuangyuan Bridge collapse caused by Typhoon Morakot in 2009.[7]

Political career

Legislative Yuan

Chou won election to the Legislative Yuan via the Democratic Progressive Party proportional representation party list in 2016 and 2020.[5] [8] Chou participated in legislative questioning regarding topics related to Taiwanese indigenous people and the foreign relations of Taiwan during her first year in office.[9] [10] During the 2018 local elections, Chou claimed that Hsu Hsin-ying's magisterial campaign was attempting to buy votes.[11] During the 2020 presidential election, she asserted that Kuomintang candidate Han Kuo-yu was deceiving voters regarding the source of his wealth.[12] Over the course of her legislative tenure, Chou has opposed nuclear power,[13] called for environmental cleanup efforts,[14] and offered medical diplomacy to Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]

Committee leadership

In September 2018, Chou and fellow legislator Lin Wei-chou were elected co-chairs of the Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee.[16] As committee co-chair, Chou expressed support for amendments to the Court Organic Act and the Administrative Court Organization Act, which permitted the establishment of collegiate grand chambers, which would lessen the possibility of courts issuing conflicting rulings.[17] She retained the post in another election held in February 2019.[18] In January 2022, Chou was elected to head the, a decision protested by Kuomintang legislators, who did not arrive in time to participate in the leadership vote.[19] [20] The Kuomintang then boycotted a committee hearing due to the disagreement over leadership.[21] Chou called attention to Kuomintang boycotts of bills seeking to lower the voting age to eighteen.[22] The bill passed the legislature, but failed a referendum.

Sponsored bills

In 2018, Chou co-sponsored a national defense bill requiring government contractors to use a portion of governmental funds on defense-related research and development.[23] In 2019, she sponsored amendments to the introducing codified travel restrictions for persons of interest.[24] Later that year, Chou moved for the Legal Aid Foundation to investigate and report on reasons that a majority of indigenous people unable to pay legal fees were refusing the foundation's legal aid.[25] The following year, Chou sponsored amendments to the Political Donations Act, permitting events related to recall elections to receive monetary donations,[26] and another set of changes to Article 87 of the, extending the psychiatric custody limit to fourteen years.[27]

Pingtung County magistracy

Chou won the DPP nomination for the Pingtung County magistracy in polls also featuring Chuang Jui-hsiung and Chung Chia-pin facing off against Su Ching-chuan.[4] [28] Chou was elected to office after winning the 2022 Pingtung County magistrate election held on 26 November 2022.[29] In addition to Su, Chou faced New Power Party candidate Chan Chih-chun.[30] During the election, SET News conflated Chou's vote count with Su's, making it seem as if Chou had lost.[31] [32] Su's subsequent challenge of Chou's electoral victory was dismissed by the Pingtung District Court.[33] [34] Following the dismissal of Su's petition, Chou took office on 25 December 2022.[35] Chen Ching-min assumed Chou's vacant legislative seat.[35] [36]

2022 Pingtung County magisterial results[37]
width=35No.width=150Candidatewidth=120Partywidth=75Voteswidth=75Percentagewidth=49
1 Chan Chih-chun (詹智鈞) New Power Party19,1564.32%
2 Su Ching-chuan Kuomintang206,46046.59%
3 Chou Chun-miDemocratic Progressive Party217,53749.09%
Registered voters 679,330
Total voters 456,382
Valid votes 443,153
Invalid votes 13,229
Voter turnout 67.18%

Notes and References

  1. News: 6號 周春米 . 29 December 2022 . Liberty Times . 2020 . zh.
  2. News: 周春米 . 29 December 2022 . Liberty Times . zh.
  3. News: Plague-expelling religious festival to be held on schedule . 29 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 23 October 2021. Republished as: News: Anti-plague festival to be scaled down . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 24 October 2021.
  4. News: Pan. Jason. 8 April 2022. Chou Chun-mi wins DPP Pingtung County nomination. Taipei Times. 13 December 2022.
  5. News: Chou Chun-mi (9) . 29 December 2022 . Legislative Yuan.
  6. News: Gerber . Abraham . Women's groups call for an end to frivolous lawsuits . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 23 February 2017.
  7. News: Chao . Vincent Y. . Bridge disaster families waiting for compensation . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 6 August 2010.
  8. News: Chou Chun-mi (10) . 29 December 2022 . Legislative Yuan.
  9. News: Lin . Liang-sheng . Ku . Chia-hsin . Chung . Jake . Lawmakers pan Prague for sovereignty slight . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 28 February 2016.
  10. News: Lin . Sean . Tsai's Aboriginal rights policy disputed . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 27 May 2016.
  11. News: Pan . Jason . ELECTIONS: Prosecutors looking into reports of rice-for-votes scheme . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 17 November 2018.
  12. News: Pan . Jason . Han campaign 'deceiving' regarding his wealth: DPP . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 22 November 2019.
  13. News: Lin . Chia-nan . ELECTIONS: Lawyers, students sign to support nuclear-free land . Taipei Times . 29 December 2022 . 20 November 2018.
  14. News: Tsai . Tsung-hsien . Kaohsiung oil spill drifts farther south . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 28 June 2021.
  15. News: Virus Outbreak: DPP lawmakers donate medical gowns to Osaka . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 29 April 2020.
  16. News: Lin . Sean . Lawmakers elect 16 conveners for eight Legislative Yuan committees . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 28 September 2018.
  17. News: Lin . Sean . Law change creates 'grand chambers' . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 8 December 2018.
  18. News: Lin . Sean . Legislature names those leading its eight committees . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 24 February 2019.
  19. News: Pan . Jason . Constitutional committee gets off to a rocky start . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 7 January 2022.
  20. News: Pan . Jason . Protesters stage rally for protection of animal rights . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 18 January 2022.
  21. News: Pan . Jason . KMT legislators skip amendment committee hearing . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 14 January 2022.
  22. News: Constitutional revision to lower voting age passes committee review . 29 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 18 January 2022. Republished as: News: Bill to lower the voting age to 18 passes review . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 19 January 2022.
  23. News: Lo . Tien-pin . Chin . Jonathan . Chung . Jake . Bill aims to revitalize defense sector . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 30 December 2018.
  24. News: Lin . Sean . Code revision provides basis for travel ban . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 25 May 2019.
  25. News: Lin . Sean . Legal Aid Foundation budget passed . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 6 November 2019.
  26. News: Hsieh . Chun-lin . Chung . Jake . DPP eyes changes to donation rules for recalls . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 27 May 2020.
  27. News: Lawmakers call for psychiatric custody limit of 14 years . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 13 May 2020.
  28. News: Su . Chin-feng . Chin . Jonathan . DPP nominates Tsai Chi-chang for Taichung mayor . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 1 May 2022.
  29. News: Ko . Lin . ELECTIONS 2022/DPP Chou Chun-mi becomes 1st elected female magistrate of Pingtung County . 29 December 2022 . 26 November 2022.
  30. News: NPP nominates candidates for Keelung mayor, Pingtung magistrate races . 29 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 15 June 2022. Republished as: News: NPP names Keelung, Pingtung local election candidates . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 16 June 2022.
  31. News: Shan . Shelley . NCC tells SET News to probe election errors . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 1 December 2022.
  32. News: Shan . Shelley . Digital act not proceeding due to lack of public consensus: NCC chairman . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 2 December 2022.
  33. News: Lee . Huei-ting . Lee . Hsin-Yin . ELECTIONS 2022/KMT's Su seeks vote recount in Pingtung magistrate election . 29 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 27 November 2022.
  34. News: Lee . Huei-ting . Lin . Sean . ELECTIONS 2022/Court dismisses KMT magistrate candidate's request for ballot recount . 29 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 8 December 2022. Republished as: News: Pingtung court dismisses recount bid by KMT's Su . 29 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 10 December 2022.
  35. News: Chen . Chun-hua . Kao . Evelyn . By-election for Nantou legislative seat scheduled for March 4 . 26 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 26 December 2022. Republished as: News: By-election for Hsu's Nantou seat set for March 4 . 27 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 27 December 2022.
  36. News: Chen . Yun-yu . Ko . Lin . Nursing association head honored in Ireland . 7 December 2022 . Central News Agency . 6 December 2022. Republished as: News: Chen Ching-min inducted to Irish nursing faculty . 7 December 2022 . Taipei Times . 7 December 2022.
  37. Web site: 2022 ー 111年縣市長選舉 . 5 January 2022 . .

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