Wang Tsing-fong (; born 1 January 1952 in Tainan City) is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician.

Education

Wang graduated from the Taipei First Girls' High School and received her bachelor's and master's degrees in law from

National Chengchi University National Chengchi University () is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subsequently reestablished in 1954 in Taiwan as the first reestablished "National University". The u ...

Early career

Wang has been working as a lawyer since graduation. Since 1987, she has been organising activities to give legal support to help Taiwanese

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, child prostitutes, and

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victims.

Political career

She was nominated as a member of the

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Lee Teng-hui Lee Teng-hui (; pinyin: ''Lǐ Dēnghuī''; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese politician and agricultural scientist who served as the fourth president of the Republic of China, president of the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan) unde ...

, serving in this position from April 1993 to October 1995. In October 1995, Wang resigned her Control Yuan position and accepted the invitation from Chen Li-an to be his partner in their 1996 ROC Presidential Election campaign. They finished last among the four candidates, winning 9.98% of the vote. In 2004, as an

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, Wang served as a member in the highly controversial 3-19 Shooting Investigation Committee organised by the

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after its loss in the 2004 ROC Presidential election. In 2005 Wang secured a seat in the

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after the led by Chang Ya-chung, her recommending party, won 1.68% vote in the 2005 Republic of China National Assembly election and thereby secured five seats. Wang resigned her seat immediately upon taking office.

ROC Justice Ministry

Wang was nominated by 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 ...

to be

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after he won the 2008 ROC Presidential Election. On 10 March 2010, Wang announced that she is in favour of the eventual abolition of the

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; she emphasised that she would not allow any executions during her tenure. Her speech aroused public protests led by relatives of murder victims, such as the entertainer Pai Bing-bing ( whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered in 1997). There were calls for her to step down. Wang quit her ministerial position the next day.

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