李鴻鈞
Lee Hung-chun
6th Vice President of the Control Yuan
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Appointed byTsai Ing-wen
PresidentChen Chu
Preceded byPaelabang Danapan
Secretary-General of People First Party
In office
9 April 2019 – 30 May 2022
ChairmanJames Soong
Preceded byFu Hsueh-peng (acting)
Succeeded byMa Chieh-ming
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2002 – 31 January 2020
Constituency
See list
Personal details
Born (1959-05-11) May 11, 1959 (age 64)
NationalityTaiwan
Political partyIndependent (2022－)
Other political
affiliations
RelativesLee Hong-yuan (brother)

Lee Hung-chun (Chinese: 李鴻鈞; pinyin: Lǐ Hóngjūn; born 11 May 1959) is a Taiwanese politician who serves as the vice president of the Control Yuan since 1 August 2022. Before his vice-presidentship, he serves as the member of Legislative Yuan for eighteen years from 2002 to 2020.

Early life

Lee Hung-chun's father Lee Teng-hui was the former head of Taishan, New Taipei. His elder brother is politician Lee Hong-yuan.[1]

Lee Hung-chun was born in present-day New Taipei on 11 May 1959.[2][3] After graduating from the Lee-Ming Institute of Technology, he earned a doctorate in structural engineering from Nihon University.

Political career

Lee won election to the Legislative Yuan in 2001 as a People First Party candidate for Taipei County's second district.[4] He retained the office in 2004.[5] Lee subsequently served two consecutive terms as legislator representing Taipei County's fourth district,[6][7] followed by a single term on the PFP party list.[8] As the Ninth Legislative Yuan opened, Lee received four votes to serve as the body's speaker.[9] Though Lee ranked second on the party list during the 2020 legislative election,[3] the People First Party lost all of its seats and was supplanted as a third party by the Taiwan People's Party.

In May 2022, Tsai Ing-wen nominated Lee for the vacant vice presidency of the Control Yuan.[10] Lee stated that he would resign his position as PFP secretary-general,[10] which he had held since 2019,[11] as well as his party membership.[10] He was formally confirmed to the Control Yuan on 24 May 2022 by a 99–2 vote of the Legislative Yuan.[12]

References

  1. ^ 陳, 心瑜 (8 January 2017). "前泰山鄉長 李鴻源父李騰輝逝世". China Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. ^ "李鴻鈞". Liberty Times (in Chinese). 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b "2號 李鴻鈞". Liberty Times (in Chinese). 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Lee Hung-chun (5)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Lee Hung-chun (6)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Lee Hung-chun (7)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Lee Hung-chun (8)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Lee Hung-chun (9)". Legislative Yuan.
  9. ^ Hsu, Stacy (2 February 2016). "First non-KMT legislative speaker is Su". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  10. ^ a b c Wang, Flor; Wang, Cheng-chung (9 May 2022). "Lee Hung-chun nominated for Control Yuan vice president". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  11. ^ Chen, Yun; Chung, Jake (1 May 2019). "PFP says media distorted Soong's Xinhua interview". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  12. ^ Wang, Yang-yu; Kao, Evelyn (24 May 2022). "Lee Hung-chun confirmed as Control Yuan vice president". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 May 2022.


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