Lwo Shih-hsiung | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Order: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Constituency: | Kaohsiung 1 |
Term Start: | 1 February 2002 |
Term End: | 31 January 2008 |
Successor: | Chung Shao-ho |
Birth Date: | 23 May 1969 |
Birth Place: | Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Party: | Kuomintang |
Alma Mater: | National Cheng Kung University National Sun Yat-sen University |
Occupation: | politician |
Parents: | Luo Chuan-chin |
Lwo Shih-hsiung (; born 23 May 1969) is a Taiwanese politician.
His father was Luo Chuan-chin. Lwo completed his primary and secondary education in Kaohsiung, Taiwan before earning a degree from National Cheng Kung University. He then completed some graduate work at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU).[1] [2]
Lo was first elected in Kaohsiung 1st district in 2001, and won reelection for the same seat in 2004.[3] In 2006, Lwo contested the Kuomintang nomination for the Kaohsiung mayoralty.[4] The party backed Huang Chun-ying, and Huang lost to Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Chu. Lwo remained a member of the Legislative Yuan, and in May 2006, proposed a recall motion against president Chen Shui-bian that was rejected.[5] His 2008 reelection bid featured the use of caricatures of himself as a bear.[6] After Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan in 2009, Lwo was named to a committee specially convened to handle disaster relief.[7] He later became executive director of the Southern Taiwan Joint Services Center, under the purview of the Executive Yuan.[8] It was announced that Lwo had resigned the position in October 2011.[9]