Succeeded by Liu Chien-kuo Nationality Republic of China Parents Chang Hui-yuan, Tseng Mai | Constituency Yunlin 2 Party People First Party | |
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Born 7 May 1971 (age 45)Yunlin County, Taiwan ( 1971-05-07 ) Political party People First Party (since 2015) Other politicalaffiliations Kuomintang (until 2015) Education Colorado Christian University | ||
Former kmt legislator chang sho wen leaving kmt for the pfp
Chang Sho-wen (Chinese: 張碩文; born 7 May 1971) is a Taiwanese politician. He first won election to the Legislative Yuan in 2004 and was reelected in 2008. Partway through his second term, Chang was removed from office on charges of electoral fraud.
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Political career
Chang was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2004. During his 2004 campaign, he was questioned by Yunlin County prosecutors as part of a large investigation of vote buying. Chang was allowed to take his seat on the legislature. During part of his first term, he was the secretary-general of the Kuomintang caucus. Chang has also been known to participate in fights on the legislative floor. In 2007, he threw a lunchbox at fellow legislator Yin Ling-ying over a disagreement on amendments to the Farmers' and Fishers' Association Law.
The next legislative elections were scheduled for 2007, but it was eventually decided to hold both the presidential and legislative elections closer together in 2008, a move Chang supported. Chang was reelected, but the election result was challenged by Democratic Progressive Party opponent Liu Chien-kuo on 20 November 2008. Annulment of the election was granted on 30 June 2009 by the Taiwan High Court, which upheld the ruling of the Yunlin District Court, despite Chang's appeal to the Control Yuan. Chang became the second lawmaker after Lee Yi-ting to lose his seat in the seventh session of the Legislative Yuan.
Chang's father Chang Hui-yuan tried to join the Kuomintang to run for his son's vacated seat, submitting the application on 17 July. The KMT chose not to accept it, and Chang Hui-yuan ended his bid to join the political party, choosing instead to run as an independent. The by-election, beset by another round of electoral fraud accusations, was won by Democratic Progressive Party candidate Liu Chien-kuo in a three-way contest.
Chang Sho-wen led Sean Lien's Taipei mayoral campaign in 2014. However, Chang grew increasingly critical of the Kuomintang and chairman Ma Ying-jeou, and the party officially expelled him on 15 July 2015, though he had renounced his membership to join the People First Party in June. Chang was tabbed to run in New Taipei's 3rd district under the PFP banner, and lost.