Wang Jin-pyng
Wang Jin-pyng MLY | |
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王金平 | |
10th President of the Legislative Yuan | |
In office 1 February 1999 – 1 February 2016 | |
Vice President | |
Preceded by | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
In office 1 February 1976 – 31 January 2020 | |
Constituency | See list
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Vice Chairman of the Kuomintang | |
In office 18 June 2000 – 19 August 2005 Serving with Ma Ying-jeou, Wu Po-hsiung, Vincent Siew, Chiang Chung-ling, Helen Lin and Chiang Pin-kung | |
Chairman | Lien Chan |
9th Vice President of the Legislative Yuan | |
In office 1 February 1993 – 31 January 1999 | |
President | Liu Sung-pan |
Preceded by | Shen Shih-hsiung |
Succeeded by | Yao Eng-chi |
Personal details | |
Born | Rochiku Village, Okayama District, | March 17, 1941
Nationality | Taiwan |
Political party | Kuomintang |
Spouse | Chen Tsai-lien (陳彩蓮) |
Children | Wang Hsin-min (王馨敏) Wang Hsin-chun (王馨淳) Wang Ping-yao (王柄堯) |
Alma mater | National Taiwan Normal University |
Wang Jin-pyng (
Early life
Wang was born in a simple rural community in Rochiku Village,
Wang finished his elementary school in Tainan Municipal Dashe Elementary School. He finished his junior and senior high school from the Tainan First Senior High School in Tainan. In this school, Wang had always become the team leader of the school's tennis team.
He finally graduated from the Teacher's College of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 1965.
Wang said that he never put extra efforts in academic studies since childhood and he does not believe in renowned star schools. However, his grades have always been good and his education went smoothly throughout his school years.
Early career
Upon graduation, Wang worked as a mathematics teacher for a year at the Provincial Ging-Der Senior High School in Changhua County. After his mandatory military service in the Republic of China Military Police was completed, Wang returned home to work for the family-run food processing company dealing with export and import trade.
In early 1975, he represented his family business in the founding of Kaohsiung Industrial Association. He was elected as the director-in-chief of the association. His job involved travelling throughout Taiwan to inspect member factories and led to his entry into politics later that year.
Political career
Legislative Yuan
Following his victory in the
From 1976 until 1990, he was a member of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Yuan. In 1980, 1987 and 1990, Wang acted many times to assemble members of the Financial Committee and put his efforts forward in making some possible historical policies, such as introducing innovative tax system, opening up the establishment of security firms, lifting prohibition of setting up private banks, removing foreign exchange control schemes and other policies.
Kuomintang
On 10 April 1990, Wang was appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Central Policy Committee of the KMT, and then on 17 November 1990, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Policy Committee's Finance Commission. Wang became the KMT's first Director-General of the Committee on Coordination between Party and Government and the KMT Caucus Convener in the Legislative Yuan in 1992 following the retirement of all of Legislative Yuan first senior members on 31 December 1991. During that time, Wang was posted as KMT supervisor and started to search for a mechanism to make cross party negotiation possible.
On 27 August 1993, Wang was elected to become the member of KMT Central Committee, and subsequently the member of Central Standing Committee during the 14th nationwide representative meeting of the party.
China-Japan Parliamentary Member Interactions Association
In 1993, Wang was appointed as the Director of China-Japan Parliamentary Member Interactions Association where he became more active in promoting parliamentary diplomacy.
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
In 2003 Wang was elected as the chairman of the
Other organizations
Wang also holds other public welfare positions, such as the President of the Council for Taiwan Major League Baseball Association, board chairman of the Formosa Cancer Foundation, President of the Council for National Volunteer Fire Fighters' Association, Honored Board Chairman of the Charity Mothers Association and Honored Board Chairman of the National No-Barrier Space Development Association.
Legislative Yuan vice presidency
On 1 February 1993, Wang became the KMT candidate for the nomination of vice president post of the Legislative Yuan. Supported by the majority, he secured his post and started to lead the congress. He renewed his three-year post in 1996, serving the post consecutively from 1 February 1993 until 31 January 1999.
During his office term, Wang successfully completed the passing of many important laws, such as the Self-governance Law for Provinces and Counties, Municipal Self-governance Law, National Health Insurance Law, February 28 Incident Disposition and Compensation Act, Joint Development Law, Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law, Compulsory Automobile Liability Insurance Law, Government Procurement Law, Three Laws Pertaining to National Security, Three Laws Pertaining to Communication.
Wang was also actively involved in promoting congress diplomacy. He had represented the Legislative Yuan as vice president visiting abroad and also as representative to receive guests from foreign countries.
Kuomintang vice chairmanship
Wang had been the vice chairman of KMT in 2000–2005.
ROC presidential election
During the
Prior to July 2005, he was, along with
2005 KMT chairmanship election
However, on 16 July 2005, Ma defeated Wang in the
Candidate | Total votes cast | Percentage of vote |
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Ma Ying-jeou (W) | 370,056 | 72.36% |
Wang Jin-pyng | 143,268 | 27.64% |
Total eligible voters | 1,045,467 | |
Total ballots cast | 524,487 | |
Voter turnout | 50.17% | |
Total ballots counted | 518,324 | |
Disqualified ballots | 6,163 |
Most political commentators believe the KMT chairmanship election definitively put Ma Ying-jeou as the front-runner for the KMT nomination in 2008; this was proved correct as Ma won the KMT nomination for 2008 president on 2 May, virtually uncontested. Although Wang did not join the primary election, Wang has also not ruled out running as an independent. Though Ma had offered Wang the nomination as the KMT's vice presidential candidate, Wang recently declined the offer, saying that the pressure of being legislative Speaker was too great for him to be able to consider the offer.[1] After weeks of talks and discussions among the Pan-Blue heavy weights including Lien, Wang, Wu and Ma, there was no agreement made to field a Ma-Wang President-Vice President ticket. At the end, Wang decided to turn down Ma's offer of Vice Presidency, but stated that he would do his utmost to support Ma in the upcoming election.
Legislative Yuan presidency
4th Legislative Yuan
Due to his easygoing nature and willingness to listen to differing perspectives,
During the first half of the session, Wang had passed a total of 60 new laws, confirming the plan to move Legislative Yuan to a new place. In the second half of the session, a total of 96 laws were passed, the second highest in ROC history when 148 laws were passed in 1948.
5th Legislative Yuan
The KMT lost its majority for the first time in the
6th Legislative Yuan
2005 Busan APEC
In the
7th Legislative Yuan
Until 2011, Kuomintang legislators were barred from seeking an at-large third term. The restriction was lifted that year, for politicians who made "special contributions to the party, meet the needs of the party and have served as legislative speaker," and Wang continued serving as Yuan President.[4]
During the final plenary session of the 7th Legislative Yuan on 14 December 2011, Wang said that the Yuan had passed a total of 896 bills and resolutions over the past four years, including the Special Statute for Distributing Consumption Vouchers for Revitalizing the Economy, Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement and legislation regarding the 2G national health insurance program, gender equality and justice in housing. Wang encouraged the yuan to continue its oversight functions on behalf of the public in the future as a power to promote the development of Taiwan.[5]
8th Legislative Yuan
Influence peddling
On 7 September 2013, according to information gathered through wiretap recordings, President Ma Ying-Jeou accused Wang of influence peddling, a move that damages KMT reputation.
On 11 September 2013, Wang sent an attorney to the
Many support movements around Taiwan were shown to support Wang. After the disciplinary action against Wang, 11 neighborhood wardens in Wang's hometown in
Support for President Ma Ying-jeou came from Wang Chien-shien, President of Control Yuan. He said that despite KMT legislators comprising about three-quarters, or 84 members out of total 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan, the KMT was still being held hostage by opposition Democratic Progressive Party, adding that KMT had accomplish nothing from 2008 until 2012 due to Wang Jin-pyng's inability to deal with people and negotiate.[12]
The KMT officially lifted at large term limits for affiliated politicians who had previously served as leader of the legislature in October 2015.[13]
Later political career
On 7 March 2019, Wang announced his intention to contest the Kuomintang nomination for the
Personal life
At the age of 28, on 26 March 1969 Wang met his then-future wife Chen Tsai-lien during the anniversary celebration of Shih Chien Home Economics College at the Feng-Lin Restaurant. It was love at the first sight and both felt a deep connection towards one another. They held their engagement ceremony at Mandarina Crown Hotel.
In 2021, Wang received Japan's Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, for his contributions to "enhancing mutual friendship and understanding between Taiwan and Japan.".[17]
References
- ^ Taiwan's Ma rebuffed in bid to bring rival onto presidential ticket, The China Post, 31 May 2007.
- ^ Hung, Chen-ling (20 June 2000). "Wang enjoys the fruit of his labor". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ^ "The Legislative Yuan Republic of China". Ly.gov.tw. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ Hsu, Stacy (21 October 2015). "Chu wants rule change for Wang". Taipei Times. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "Kuomintang News Network". Kmt.org.tw. 2011-12-15. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ "Taiwan's speaker expelled as political scandal deepens". Rappler.com. 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ Chang, Argin (2013-09-11). "Taiwan's Ruling Party Expels Legislative Speaker Over Ethics". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ "Ma sought Wang's ouster to protect KMT post: report". Taipei Times. 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ a b "KMT revokes Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng's membership - Taiwan News Online". Etaiwannews.com. 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ "Injunction approved, Wang still LY speaker". The China Post. 2013-09-14. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ "Wang Jin-pyng to be barred from attending party functions: KMT". The China Post. 2013-09-15. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ "Wang Chien-shien lauds president". Taipei Times. 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ Hsu, Stacy (28 October 2015). "KMT votes to lift legislative term limits". Taipei Times. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Lin, Sean (8 March 2019). "Wang Jin-pyng announces bid to be president". Taipei Times. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Maxon, Ann (7 June 2019). "Wang Jin-pyng to forgo KMT primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ Maxon, Ann (18 June 2018). "PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Wang Jin-pyng says race still on". Taipei Times. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ Kao, Evelyn (2021-11-03). "Taiwan's ex-Legislative speaker conferred with Japan honor". Focus Taiwan.