Lu Ming-che explained

Lu Ming-che
Native Name Lang:zh-tw
Honorific-Suffix:MLY
Office1:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Term Start1:1 February 2020
Constituency1:Taoyuan 3
Predecessor1:Apollo Chen
Office2:Member of the Taoyuan City Council
Term Start2:25 December 2014
Term End2:31 January 2020
Constituency2:Seventh precinct Zhongli District)
Office3:Mayor of Zhongli City
Term Start3:1 March 2010
Term End3:24 December 2014
Predecessor3:Yeh Bu-liang
Successor3:Lin Hsiang-mei (as head of Zhongli District)
Office4:Member of the Taoyuan County Council
Constituency4:Zhongli City
Term Start4:1 March 2002
Term End4:1 March 2010
Office5:Member of the Zhongli City Council
Term Start5:1 March 1998
Term End5:1 March 2002
Birth Date:1963 12, df=y
Birth Place:Taipei, Taiwan
Alma Mater:National Chengchi University
Yuan Ze University
Occupation:Politician

Lu Ming-che (; born 4 December 1963) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Lu attended Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, then studied business administration at National Chengchi University before pursuing a master's degree in the subject at Yuan Ze University.[1]

Political career

Lu was elected to a single term on the Zhongli City Council, serving from 1998 to 2002. He was subsequently elected to the Taoyuan County Council for two full terms, serving until 2010. Later that year, Lu won the Zhongli mayoral election. He remained mayor until 2014, when Taoyuan County became a special municipality, and the city of Zhongli became a district of Taoyuan City. Lu then served on the Taoyuan City Council until 2020.[1] In 2018, he sought the Kuomintang nomination as candidate for the mayoralty of Taoyuan. Following a party primary, the KMT selected Apollo Chen as its mayoral candidate.[2] He was elected to the Legislative Yuan from Taoyuan City Constituency III in January 2020, succeeding Chen in office.[1] During his first term as a member of the Legislative Yuan, Lu served on the transportation committee and took an interest in the review of CTi News performed by the National Communications Commission.[3] [4] Lu garnered some support for a Taoyuan mayoral bid prior to the 2022 Taiwanese local elections. However, the Kuomintang nominated Chang San-cheng in a closed-door meeting of its Central Standing Committee in May 2022.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lu Ming-che (10) . 5 August 2021 . Legislative Yuan.
  2. News: Hsu . Stacy . Apollo Chen wins Taoyuan primary . 5 August 2021 . Taipei Times . 28 March 2018.
  3. News: Shih . Hsaio-kuang . Wu . Su-wei . Xie . Dennis . KMT criticizes minister over traffic . 5 August 2021 . Taipei Times . 27 June 2020.
  4. News: Shan . Shelley . NCC to invite experts to CtiTV News hearing . 5 August 2021 . Taipei Times . 8 October 2020.
  5. News: Liu . Kuan-ting . Shih . Hsiu-chuan . KMT picks ex-Premier Simon Chang to run for Taoyuan mayor . 19 May 2022 . Central News Agency . 18 May 2022.