Fan Chen-tsung (; born 20 November 1942) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Fan graduated from

National Taiwan Ocean University National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU; ) is a national university in Zhongzheng District, Keelung, Zhongzheng District, Keelung, Taiwan. NTOU is a member of University System of Taipei. History NTOU was originally established as the Provincia ...

Career

From 1978 to 1986, he was a member of the

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. In his second term as county councillor, Fan became the body's deputy speaker. In 1986, Fan was elected to the

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and served until 1990. He ran for the magistracy of Hsinchu County as an independent in 1989, and joined the

Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan. As the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition, one of the two main political camps in Taiwan, the DPP is currently the ...

shortly after winning the office. In 1993, Fan won a second term. He was succeeded as magistrate by Lin Kuang-hua. Fan was subsequently appointed to Lin's vacant seat on the

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, taking office on 26 January 1998. Fan was elected speaker of the

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, and left that position to assume leadership of the

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in 2002. He resigned on 24 November, as farmers and fishermen's collectives protested attempts to reform credit unions related to those industries. Premier

Yu Shyi-kun You Si-kun (; born 25 April 1948), also romanized Yu Shyi-kun, is a Taiwanese politician. He was one of the founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and is known to be a strong advocate of Taiwan independence. He led the DPP ...

accepted Fan's resignation two days later, and Fan officially left office on 2 December. In July 2009, Fan and Hsu Jung-shu were invited to the

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. Though the Democratic Progressive Party advised both not to go, both made the trip, resulting in the suspension of Fan and Hsu's party membership. Before he could be formally expelled, Fan withdrew from the DPP. In 2010, Fan again visited China with a group of

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politicians. Later that year, Fan resigned his post as adviser to President

Ma Ying-jeou Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, t=馬英九; pinyin: ''Mǎ Yīngjiǔ''; ; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT ...

after the Hsinchu District Court convicted Fan on corruption charges dating back to Fan's tenure as Hsinchu County Magistrate.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fan, Chen-tsung 1942 births Living people National Taiwan Ocean University alumni Democratic Progressive Party Members of the Legislative Yuan Members of the 3rd Legislative Yuan Hsinchu County Members of the Legislative Yuan Magistrates of Hsinchu County Taiwanese politicians convicted of corruption Senior advisors to President Ma Ying-jeou Expelled members of the Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan) Ministers of agriculture of Taiwan