Lu Ming-che

Taiwanese politician
魯明哲
Member of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2020Preceded byApollo ChenConstituencyTaoyuan 3Member of the Taoyuan City CouncilIn office
25 December 2014 – 31 January 2020ConstituencySeventh precinct Zhongli District)Mayor of Zhongli CityIn office
1 March 2010 – 24 December 2014Preceded byYeh Bu-liangSucceeded byLin Hsiang-mei (as head of Zhongli District)Member of the Taoyuan County CouncilIn office
1 March 2002 – 1 March 2010ConstituencyZhongli CityMember of the Zhongli City CouncilIn office
1 March 1998 – 1 March 2002 Personal detailsBorn (1963-12-04) 4 December 1963 (age 60)
Taipei, TaiwanPolitical partyKuomintang (since 2008)Other political
affiliationsNew Party (1998–2002)
People First Party (2002–2008)Alma materNational Chengchi University
Yuan Ze UniversityOccupationPolitician

Lu Ming-che (Chinese: 魯明哲; born 4 December 1963) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Lu attended Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, then studied business administration at National Chengchi University before pursuing a master's degree in the subject at Yuan Ze University.[1]

Political career

Lu was elected to a single term on the Zhongli City Council, serving from 1998 to 2002. He was subsequently elected to the Taoyuan County Council for two full terms, serving until 2010. Later that year, Lu won the Zhongli mayoral election. He remained mayor until 2014, when Taoyuan County became a special municipality, and the city of Zhongli became a district of Taoyuan City. Lu then served on the Taoyuan City Council until 2020.[1] In 2018, he sought the Kuomintang nomination as candidate for the mayoralty of Taoyuan. Following a party primary, the KMT selected Apollo Chen as its mayoral candidate.[2] He was elected to the Legislative Yuan from Taoyuan City Constituency III in January 2020, succeeding Chen in office.[1] During his first term as a member of the Legislative Yuan, Lu served on the transportation committee and took an interest in the review of CTi News performed by the National Communications Commission.[3][4] Lu garnered some support for a Taoyuan mayoral bid prior to the 2022 Taiwanese local elections. However, the Kuomintang nominated Chang San-cheng in a closed-door meeting of its Central Standing Committee in May 2022.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lu Ming-che (10)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  2. ^ Hsu, Stacy (28 March 2018). "Apollo Chen wins Taoyuan primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  3. ^ Shih, Hsaio-kuang; Wu, Su-wei; Xie, Dennis (27 June 2020). "KMT criticizes minister over traffic". Taipei Times. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  4. ^ Shan, Shelley (8 October 2020). "NCC to invite experts to CtiTV News hearing". Taipei Times. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  5. ^ Liu, Kuan-ting; Shih, Hsiu-chuan (18 May 2022). "KMT picks ex-Premier Simon Chang to run for Taoyuan mayor". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 May 2022.