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Wang Shu-hui

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Wang Shu-hui
Official portrait, 2000
New Taipei City Councillor
In office
25 December 2010 – 25 December 2022
ConstituencyNew Taipei IV
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2002 – 31 January 2008
Succeeded byLin Hung-chih
ConstituencyTaipei County VI
Taipei County Councillor
In office
1 March 1990 – 31 January 2002
ConstituencyBanqiao District
Personal details
Born (1955-12-02) December 2, 1955 (age 68)
Taipei, Taiwan
NationalityTaiwan
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
Alma materFu Jen Catholic University
National Taiwan University
Illinois State University
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLinguist
Political scientist

Wang Shu-hui (Chinese: 王淑慧; pinyin: Wáng Shúhùi; born 2 December 1955) is a former legislator for the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan.

Wang Shu-hui has on occasion participated in physical confrontations during her time as a Taiwanese legislator, including one incident involving a thrown shoe.[1] In 2006, Wang shoved a transportation proposal on opening links with mainland China in her own mouth to prevent it being voted upon. She later spat the proposal out and tore it up.[2][3]

She was defeated by Lin Hung-chih of the Kuomintang for Taipei County constituency 6 in the 2008 legislative election.

Wang subsequently won election to the New Taipei City Council in 2010, 2014, and 2018. In January 2022, during her third term as city councilor, the New Taipei City District Court sentenced Wang to nine years imprisonment for fraud that had taken place during her first term in office. Wang was found to have listed relatives as members of her staff, then collected the wages and subsides set aside for them.[4]

References

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  1. ^ 7 Political Disagreements Settled With Fists and Hair-Pulling
  2. ^ MPs' behaviour hard to stomach
  3. ^ "Taiwan's brawling in parliament is a political way of life". 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  4. ^ Huang, Hsu-sheng; Yen, William (13 January 2022). "New Taipei DPP councilor sentenced to 9 years for wage fraud". Central News Agency. Retrieved 4 February 2022. Republished as: "New Taipei councilor gets nine years for fraud". Taipei Times. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.