李鴻鈞 Lee Hung-chun | |
Office1: | 6th Vice President of the Control Yuan |
Appointer1: | Tsai Ing-wen |
President1: | Chen Chu |
Term Start1: | 1 August 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Paelabang Danapan |
Order2: | Secretary-General of People First Party |
1Blankname2: | Chairman |
1Namedata2: | James Soong |
Term Start2: | 9 April 2019 |
Term End2: | 30 May 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Fu Hsueh-peng (acting) |
Successor2: | Ma Chieh-ming |
Office3: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Term Start3: | 1 February 2002 |
Term End3: | 31 January 2020 |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1959 |
Nationality: | Taiwan |
Party: | Independent (2022-) |
Lee Hung-chun (; born 11 May 1959) is a Taiwanese politician who serves as the vice president of the Control Yuan since 1 August 2022. Before his vice-presidentship, he serves as the member of Legislative Yuan for eighteen years from 2002 to 2020.
Lee Hung-chun's father Lee Teng-hui was the former head of Taishan, New Taipei. His elder brother is politician Lee Hong-yuan.[1]
Lee Hung-chun was born in present-day New Taipei on 11 May 1959.[2] [3] After graduating from the Lee-Ming Institute of Technology, he earned a doctorate in structural engineering from Nihon University.
Lee won election to the Legislative Yuan in 2001 as a People First Party candidate for Taipei County's second district.[4] He retained the office in 2004.[5] Lee subsequently served two consecutive terms as legislator representing Taipei County's fourth district,[6] [7] followed by a single term on the PFP party list.[8] As the Ninth Legislative Yuan opened, Lee received four votes to serve as the body's speaker.[9] Though Lee ranked second on the party list during the 2020 legislative election,[3] the People First Party lost all of its seats and was supplanted as a third party by the Taiwan People's Party.
In May 2022, Tsai Ing-wen nominated Lee for the vacant vice presidency of the Control Yuan. Lee stated that he would resign his position as PFP secretary-general, which he had held since 2019,[10] as well as his party membership.[11] He was formally confirmed to the Control Yuan on 24 May 2022 by a 99–2 vote of the Legislative Yuan.[12]