Lin Kuo-cheng | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Term Start: | 1 February 2024 |
Constituency: | Republic of China |
Office1: | Member of the Taipei City Council |
Term Start1: | 10 September 2008 |
Term End1: | 25 December 2022 |
Constituency1: | District 4 (Zhongshan–Datong) |
Birth Date: | 1957 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Pingtung County, Taiwan |
Party: | Taiwan People's Party (since 2019) |
Otherparty: | People First Party (2001–2019) |
Lin Kuo-cheng (; born 20 August 1957) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Taipei City Council between 2008 and 2022. He ran for the Legislative Yuan twice, in 2020 and 2024, winning the latter election.
Lin was born in Pingtung County on 20 August 1957, and studied at TransWorld University.[1]
Lin served on the Taipei City Council from 2008 to 2022, and for most of his municipal tenure was affiliated with the People First Party.[1] [2] In 2018, Lin joined a group of several PFP and independent municipal councilor candidates, which later became the Taipei Supervising Alliance.[3] [4] Throughout that year, Ko Wen-je was seen at several of Lin's campaign events.[5] Lin retained his Taipei City Council seat as a People First Party candidate in the year-end election.[6] [7]
Soon after Ko formally founded the Taiwan People's Party, Lin Kuo-cheng's daughter was invited to serve as a party spokesperson.[8] Lin Kuo-cheng also joined the party, and ran in the 2020 legislative election as a TPP party list candidate. He was not seated to the 10th Legislative Yuan.[1] He ran again in the 2024 legislative election, and was elected as a TPP party list member of the 11th Legislative Yuan.[9]
After the 11th Legislative Yuan was convened, Lin was the only TPP legislator considered for a committee co-chair position.[10] However, the legislature's transportation committee selected Chen Hsueh-sheng and .[11]