Lin Hung-chih | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Smallimage: | Hung-Chih Lin from VOA.jpg |
Office: | Majority Leader of the Legislative Yuan |
Term Start: | 1 February 2012 |
Term End: | 31 July 2014 |
Predecessor: | Lin Yi-shih |
Successor: | Alex Fai |
Order1: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2005 |
Term End1: | 31 January 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Wang Shu-hui |
Successor1: | Chang Hung-lu |
Constituency1: | New Taipei 6 |
Office2: | Mayor of Banqiao |
Term Start2: | 1 March 1998 |
Term End2: | 1 February 2005 |
Predecessor2: | Wu Chin-chih |
Successor2: | Chang Hung-lu |
Office3: | Member of the National Assembly |
Term Start3: | 1992 |
Term End3: | 2000 |
Birth Date: | 1955 8, df=y |
Birth Place: | Pingxi, Taipei County, Taiwan |
Party: | Kuomintang |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Occupation: | Politician |
Education: | National Cheng Kung University (BA) National Chengchi University (MA) |
Lin Hung-chih (; born 22 August 1955) is a Taiwanese politician.
Lin earned a bachelor's degree in transportation and communications management from National Cheng Kung University, before obtaining his master's in political science at National Chengchi University.[1]
Lin launched a bid for a seat on the National Assembly in 1991 and served until 2000. While a member of the assembly, he was elected mayor of Banqiao and reelected in 2001. Lin stepped down in 2005 at the end of that second term to run for the Legislative Yuan. He was twice reelected to the Legislative Yuan, in 2008 and 2012, but refused to stand in the 2016 election, because his party, the Kuomintang, had suffered heavy losses in the November 2014 local elections.[1] [2]