| Liu Sung-pan | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
| Order2: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2002 |
| Term End2: | 8 September 2004 |
| Successor2: | Alfred Chen |
| Constituency2: | Republic of China (People First Party list) |
| Term Start3: | 1 February 1999 |
| Term End3: | 31 January 2002 |
| Constituency3: | Taichung County |
| Term Start4: | 1 February 1996 |
| Term End4: | 31 January 1999 |
| Constituency4: | Republic of China (Kuomintang party list) |
| Term Start5: | 1 February 1993 |
| Term End5: | 31 January 1996 |
| Constituency5: | Taichung County |
| Term Start6: | 1 February 1990 |
| Term End6: | 31 January 1993 |
| Constituency6: | Taiwan 6th |
| Term Start7: | 1 February 1973 |
| Term End7: | 31 January 1990 |
| Constituency7: | Taiwan 3rd |
| Order8: | Vice President of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start8: | 2 December 1990 |
| Term End8: | 31 December 1991 |
| Predecessor8: | Liang Su-yung |
| Successor8: | Shen Shih-hsiung |
| Order9: | President of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start9: | 17 January 1992 |
| Term End9: | 1 February 1999 |
| Predecessor9: | Liang Su-yung |
| Successor9: | Wang Jin-pyng |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Taikō, Taikō, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Party: | Independent |
| Nationality: | Taiwanese |
| Occupation: | Politician |
Liu Sung-pan (; 3 December 1931 — 18 November 2016) was a Taiwanese politician. He served as the President of the Legislative Yuan from 1992 to 1999. He was the Legislative Yuan's first Taiwan-born speaker and presided over a legislature entirely elected by residents of the Taiwan Area (after the retirement of the elderly mainland representatives in December 1991).
Liu founded a committee seeking Taiwan–United States relations in 1987. The group counted members of the US Congress and Legislative Yuan among its number.[1] [2] He was elected to the speakership of the Legislative Yuan in January 1992. Upon his confirmation, Liu became the first native Taiwanese to lead the legislature.[3] He was also the first to head a parliament entirely elected by residents of the Taiwan Area, as the elderly mainland representatives retired en masse at the end of 1991.[4] In 1998, during his tenure as legislative speaker, Liu used his status as the former chairman of Taichung Commercial Bank to broker a NT$1.5 billion loan to the Kuangsan Group, and in return he received a bribe of NT$150 million.[5] During the subsequent investigation, Liu's house was raided.[6] [7]
He left the Kuomintang in 1999, after having served two full elected terms as President of the Yuan. Liu then allied himself with James Soong's independent 2000 presidential campaign.[8] [9] After Soong's loss, Liu was named the leader of the New Taiwanese Service Team, an exploratory committee that preceded the formation of the People First Party.[10] After the end of Liu's speakership, he continued to lead Taiwan in negotiations with China and advocated for the nation to obtain membership in the World Health Organization.[11] [12] [13] Liu also backed the democratization of Myanmar and promoted United States–Taiwan relations.[14] [15]
The Taichung District Court convicted Liu for his role in the Kuangsan Group scandal in July 2003, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and NT$30 million fine.[16] [17] His final appeal was heard by the Taiwan High Court in September 2004. The THC handed Liu a four-year prison sentence and a NT$30 million fine. After the High Court's verdict was announced, Liu resigned his legislative seat.[18] At the time, Liu was at the Republican National Convention in the United States. While there, he suffered a heart attack and was not medically cleared to fly to Taiwan.[19] Though Liu had relinquished his PFP membership a day after his resignation from the Legislative Yuan,[20] the party offered to help him find medical treatment if he would serve his sentence in Taiwan.[21] Liu never acknowledged the proposal, and was subsequently listed as a fugitive in February 2007.[22] In the early 2010s, Liu was reported to have fled to China.[23] [24] [25] Later, he returned to the United States, and died in Los Angeles on 18 November 2016, aged 84.[26] [27] [28]