Lee Hsin

Lee Hsin
李新
Lee in August 2015
Member of the Taipei City Council
In office
25 December 1998  28 September 2017
Constituency Taipei 6th (Da-an District & Wenshan)
9th Deputy Speaker of Taipei City Council
In office
25 December 2002  24 December 2006
Preceded by Alex Fai
Succeeded by Chen Jinxiang
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1996–1998
Personal details
Born (1953-07-16)16 July 1953
Taipei County, Taiwan
Died 28 September 2017(2017-09-28) (aged 64)
Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality Taiwanese
Political party
Alma mater
Occupation Politician

Lee Hsin (Chinese: 李新; 16 July 1953 – 28 September 2017) was a Taiwanese politician who served on the Taipei City Council since 1998. He could speak fluent Mandarin Chinese and Hokkien.

Biography

In 1993, he followed Yok Mu-ming since the Kuomintang, and became one member of the New Party.

In 1996, elected representatives of the National Assembly, when he was forty-three years old, out of the scenes, formally in politics.

In 2008, he rejoined to the Kuomintang.

In 2015, Lee expressed interest in running for the Kuomintang chairmanship, but his candidacy, and that of four others, was rejected.[1] The next year, he launched another bid for the party leadership, finishing third in a field of four candidates with 7,604 votes.[2]

On 28 September 2017, Lee died from jumping out of his apartment building. He was 64.[3]

Others

He was a member of both the New Party and People First Party,[4][5] and later joined the Kuomintang. Lee joined the 2006 campaign led by Shih Ming-teh which attempted to force the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian.[6]

References

  1. Chung, Lawrence (12 December 2014). "New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu to run for Kuomintang chairman". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. Liu, Claudia; Lu, Hsin-hui; Wu, Lilian (26 March 2016). "Victorious Hung Hsiu-chu vows to work for KMT's rebirth". Central News Agency. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  3. Chiu, Chun-fu; Kuo, An-chia; Chin, Jonsthan (29 September 2017). "Taipei councilor falls to his death". Taipei Times. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  4. Ko, Shu-ling (22 February 2001). "Officials do nothing as temple rots". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  5. Chang, Rich (4 August 2007). "Shih, 15 others indicted over Oct. 10 `siege'". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  6. Wang, Flora (8 January 2008). "Shih Ming-teh sues Chen, Cho". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
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