Annette Lu Lu Hsiu-lien | |
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呂秀蓮 | |
.jpg) Official portrait, 2005 | |
| 8th Vice President of Taiwan | |
| In office 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2008 | |
| President | Chen Shui-bian |
| Preceded by | Lien Chan |
| Succeeded by | Vincent Siew |
| Chair of Democratic Progressive Party | |
| Acting 8 December 2005 – 15 January 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Su Tseng-chang |
| Succeeded by | Yu Shyi-kun |
| 10th Magistrate of Taoyuan | |
| In office 28 March 1997 – 20 May 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Liau Pen-yang (acting) Liu Pang-yu |
| Succeeded by | Hsu Ying-shen (acting) Eric Chu |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1 February 1993 – 31 January 1996 | |
| Constituency | Taoyuan County constituency |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 June 1944 Tōen Town, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (now Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan) |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party (1986-present) |
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| Education | National Taiwan University (LLB) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (LLM) Harvard University (LLM) |
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Annette Lu Hsiu-lien (Chinese: 呂秀蓮; pinyin: Lǚ Xiùlián; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lū Siù-liân; born 7 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician. A feminist active in the tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 1990, and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was the Vice President of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China) from 2000 to 2008, under President Chen Shui-bian. Lu announced her intentions to run for the presidency on 6 March 2007, but withdrew to support eventual DPP nominee Frank Hsieh. Lu ran again in 2012, but withdrew for a second time, ceding the nomination to DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen.[citation needed] She lost the party's Taipei mayoral nomination to Pasuya Yao in 2018, and stated that she would leave the party. However, by the time Lu announced in September 2019 that she would contest the 2020 presidential election on behalf of the Formosa Alliance, she was still a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.