Lee Hung-chun (; born 11 May 1959) is a Taiwanese engineer and politician who serves as the

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of the

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since 1 August 2022. Before his vice-presidentship, he serves as the member of

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for eighteen years from 2002 to 2020.

Early life and education

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

Lee Hong-yuan Lee Hong-yuan (; born 21 June 1956) is a Taiwanese civil engineer, environmental engineer, and politician. He was the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior (Republic of China), Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of the Executive Yuan from 2012 to ...

. Lee Hung-chun was born in present-day

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on 11 May 1959. After graduating from the Lee-Ming Institute of Technology, he earned a doctorate in structural engineering from

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Political career

Lee won election to the

in 2001 as a People First Party candidate for Taipei County's second district. He retained the office in 2004. Lee subsequently served two consecutive terms as legislator representing Taipei County's fourth district, followed by a single term on the PFP party list. As the

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opened, Lee received four votes to serve as the body's speaker. Though Lee ranked second on the party list during the 2020 legislative election, the People First Party lost all of its seats and was supplanted as a third party by the

Taiwan People's Party The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) is a centre-left political party in Taiwan. It was formally established on 6 August 2019 by Ko Wen-je, who served as its first chairman. The party considers itself as an alternative third party to both the De ...

. In May 2022,

Tsai Ing-wen Tsai Ing-wen (; pinyin: ''Cài Yīngwén''; born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the seventh president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party ...

nominated Lee for the vacant vice presidency of the Control Yuan. Lee stated that he would resign his position as PFP secretary-general, which he had held since 2019, as well as his party membership. He was formally confirmed to the

on 24 May 2022 by a 99–2 vote of the Legislative Yuan.

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