Shen Fai-hui | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Smallimage: | 立法委員沈發惠.jpg |
Caption: | Shen as a member of the 10th Legislative Yuan |
Order: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Constituency: | Republic of China |
Term Start: | 1 February 2020 |
Constituency2: | Taipei County 3 |
Term Start2: | 1 February 2005 |
Term End2: | 31 January 2008 |
Order3: | Member of the New Taipei City Council |
Term Start3: | 25 December 2010 |
Term End3: | 24 December 2018 |
Order4: | Member of the Taipei County Council |
Term Start4: | 1 March 1998 |
Term End4: | 31 January 2005 |
Birth Date: | 1966 11, df=y |
Birth Place: | Xizhi, Taipei County, Taiwan |
Party: | Democratic Progressive Party |
Nationality: | Taiwanese |
Alma Mater: | Tunghai University National Taiwan University |
Occupation: | politician |
Shen Fa-hui (; born 2 November 1966) is a Taiwanese politician.
Shen studied law at Tunghai University, and later earned a master's in public administration from National Taiwan University. While in college, he was active in the Wild Lily student movement and later worked for Frank Hsieh as a legislative assistant and with Chen Shui-bian's 1994 Taipei mayoral campaign.[1] [2] Within the Democratic Progressive Party, Shen was affiliated with the New Tide faction.[3] He has also led the DPP's Policy Committee.[4] Following his tenure within the policy committee, Shen became a member of the party's central standing committee.[5] [6]
Shen served on the Taipei County Council from 1998 to 2005, when he was elected to the Legislative Yuan.[1] [7] He ended his reelection campaign in May 2007, after losing a party primary,[8] and returned to work for Frank Hsieh.[9] Shen was elected to the New Taipei City Council in 2010.[10] He lost a legislative bid in 2012,[11] but was reelected to the NTCC in 2014.[12] In 2015, the Taiwan High Court ruled that Shen and nine other city council members were not guilty of displaying their vote in a council speakership election held by secret ballot in 2010.[13] Shen was supportive of Sunflower Student Movement activist and academic Huang Kuo-chang's 2016 legislative campaign.[14] Shen stepped down from the New Taipei City Council at the end of his second term in 2018, and returned to the Legislative Yuan in 2020.[15] Shen won a second consecutive term on the Legislative Yuan in 2024, and his third term overall.[16]