Wang Jin-pyng

Wang Jin- pyng (王金平Chinese, Pinyin Wáng Jinping, born March 17, 1941 in Luzhu (Kaohsiung ) ) is a Taiwanese politician and President of the Legislative Yuan, the Parliament of the Republic of China ( Taiwan).

Life

Wang Jin- pyng completed a mathematics degree at the Pedagogical University in Taipei Taiwan and worked after graduating in 1965 as a math teacher. Later he went into the grocery business of his family and in 1975 the first chairman of the newly formed Industry and Commerce, Kaohsiung. In the same year he joined the ruling party Kuomintang.

Political career

Wang was elected in 1975 as deputy of the Kuomintang in the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China, to which he belongs has since continuously. In 1993, he was Vice President and from 1999 President of the Legislative Yuan. Thanks to the majority of his party in that body he had held the office in the period from 2000 to 2008, which was the Kuomintang due to the defeats in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 in opposition. As a native Taiwanese Wang stood in the China -friendly Kuomintang ( see also Taiwan conflict) mostly for the moderate wing of the party locally conscious. From 2000 to 2005 he held the office of vice - chairman of the Kuomintang party chairman Lien Chan under the. Following the resignation Liens Wang candidate for the post of party chairman, but its competitor, the future President Ma Ying- jeou was beaten clearly. It was the first election in the history of the Kuomintang, in which the Chairman was elected directly by all members of the party and in the state more than just a candidate for the office of President for election.

Temporary exclusion from the Kuomintang and wiretapping scandal

Beginning of September 2013 were allegations of special investigation unit ( Special Investigation Division ) of the Ministry of Justice, according to what Wang Jin- pyng in an investigation against the opposition politician Ker Chien- ming (Democratic Progressive Party ) have exerted influence on the prosecution. President Ma responded with harsh criticism, explained the processes to a disgrace to the Taiwanese democracy and announced that Wang's exclusion from the Kuomintang, which took place on 12 September 2013. Critics expressed the presumption Mas violent reaction serves the goal to get rid of intra-party rivals. The expulsion from the party would have the loss of his mandate as a Member of Parliament and thus also the end of his office as President of the Parliament means. Wang went, however, a court against his expulsion from the party before and obtained, for the time being to remain in the party, and is therefore still President of the Parliament.

In connection with the affair became known that the special investigation unit of the Justice Department had not only listened to telephone conversations between Wang and Ker Chien -ming, but also the phones of numerous other members of parliament. This behavior triggered in Parliament as in the population of vocal protests against the Ministry of Justice and President Ma and had the resignation of the Minister of Justice Tseng Yung -fu result.