Chen Chu

For the PRC diplomat, see Chen Chu (diplomat).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Kiku Chen Chu
陳菊
Official portrait, 2020
10th President of the Control Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 August 2020
Appointed byTsai Ing-wen
Vice PresidentLee Hung-chun
Preceded byChang Po-ya
Chair of National Human Rights Commission
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 August 2020
Deputy
See list
Preceded byPosition established
35th Secretary-General to the President
In office
23 April 2018 – 20 May 2020
PresidentTsai Ing-wen
DeputyLiu Chien-sin
Lee Chun-yi
Preceded byLiu Chien-sin (acting)
Succeeded bySu Jia-chyuan
1st[a] Mayor of Kaohsiung
In office
25 December 2006 – 20 April 2018
Deputy
See list
Preceded byYeh Chu-lan (acting)
Yang Chiu-hsing[b]
Succeeded byHsu Li-ming (acting)
Chair of the Democratic Progressive Party
Acting
29 February 2012 – 30 May 2012
Preceded byTsai Ing-wen
Succeeded bySu Tseng-chang
6th Minister of the Council of Labor Affairs
In office
20 May 2000 – 19 September 2005
Prime MinisterTang Fei
Chang Chun-hsiung
Yu Shyi-kun
Frank Hsieh
Preceded byChan Huo-shen
Succeeded byLee Ying-yuan
Personal details
Born
Joyce Chen Chu

(1950-06-10) 10 June 1950 (age 74)
Sanxing, Luodong, Taipei County, Taiwan
NationalityTaiwan
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party (1986–present)
[c][1]
Other political
affiliations		Chinese Youth Party (1969–1979)
Alma materShih Hsin University
National Sun Yat-sen University
ProfessionPolitician

Kiku Chen Chu[2] (Chinese: 陳菊; pinyin: Chén Jú; Wade–Giles: Ch'en2 Chü2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Kiok; born 10 June 1950) is a Taiwanese politician serving as president of the Control Yuan and chairwomen of the National Human Rights Commission since 2020.[3][4] Before assuming her current post, Chen had served as Secretary-General to the President from 2018 to 2020 and Mayor of Kaohsiung from 2006 to 2018, making her the longest-serving mayor of the city since the Japanese occupation of Taiwan.

Prior to her entrance into politics, Chen was one of the eight prominent dissidents, namely "Kaohsiung Eight", arrested and charged after the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979. She was put behind bars for almost six years during the martial law period in Taiwan.[5]

Chen had also served in various capacities with the Taipei and Kaohsiung city governments between 1995 and 2000, with the latter being the year when she graduated from the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) with a master's degree in public affairs. She then served as Minister of the Council of Labor Affairs, the precursor to present-day Ministry of Labor, in various cabinets between 2000 and 2005. Chen won the 2006 Kaohsiung mayoral election and became the Republic of China's first directly-elected female mayor of a special municipality.[6] She was twice reelected in 2010 and 2014 with about 53% and 68% of the votes respectively.[7][8]

Nearly a month after she tendered her resignation from the role of Secretary-General to the President,[9][10] President Tsai Ing-wen nominated Chen, who supports abolishing altogether the Examination Yuan and Control Yuan,[11][12][13] as the next President of the Control Yuan on 22 June 2020[14] amid dissent from the opposition.[15][16][17][18][19] Legislative Yuan confirmed the nomination on a 65-3 vote[20] after days of violence in the chamber.[21][22] Lawmakers from the Kuomintang and the Taiwan People's Party boycotted the vote whereas all New Power Party lawmakers cast their dissent votes.[23][24][25]

The Democratic Progressive Party, which Chen helped to found, temporarily suspended her membership during her tenure as President of the Control Yuan according to party rules.[1] Chen had expressed hopes of becoming the last President of the Control Yuan[26] after helping to secure passage of the amendments to the Constitution.[27]


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