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Lee Hsin

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Lee Hsin
李新
Lee in August 2015
Member of the Taipei City Council
In office
25 December 1998 – 28 September 2017
ConstituencyTaipei 6th (Da-an District & Wenshan)
9th Deputy Speaker of Taipei City Council
In office
25 December 2002 – 24 December 2006
Preceded byAlex Fai
Succeeded byChen Jinxiang
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1996–1998
Personal details
Born(1953-07-16)16 July 1953
Taipei County, Taiwan
Died28 September 2017(2017-09-28) (aged 64)
Daan District, Taipei City, Taiwan
Political party
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician

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

Political career

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In 1993, he followed Yok Mu-ming from the Kuomintang to the New Party. In 1996, Lee was elected to the National Assembly. Lee joined the 2006 campaign led by Shih Ming-teh which attempted to force the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian.[1] 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.[2]

2016 KMT chairmanship election

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The next year, he launched another bid for the party leadership, finishing third in a field of four candidates with 7,604 votes.[3]

2016 Kuomintang chairmanship election
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage Result
1 Hung Hsiu-chu Kuomintang 78,829 56.16%
2 Huang Min-hui Kuomintang 46,341 33.02%
3 Lee Hsin Kuomintang 7,604 5.42%
4 Apollo Chen Kuomintang 6,784 4.83%
Total votes  337,351
Turnout  41.61%

He was a member of both the New Party and People First Party,[4][5] and later joined the Kuomintang.

Personal life

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Death

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On 28 September 2017, Lee died from jumping out of his apartment building in Daan District, Taipei City, Taiwan. He was 64.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Wang, Flora (8 January 2008). "Shih Ming-teh sues Chen, Cho". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  2. ^ Chung, Lawrence (12 December 2014). "New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu to run for Kuomintang chairman". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  3. ^ 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.
  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. ^ Chiu, Chun-fu; Kuo, An-chia; Chin, Jonsthan (29 September 2017). "Taipei councilor falls to his death". Taipei Times. Retrieved 29 September 2017.