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Chen Shui-bian | |||||||||||||||||
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陳水扁 | |||||||||||||||||
5th President of the Republic of China | |||||||||||||||||
In office 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
Premier | See list
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Vice President | Annette Lu | ||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Lee Teng-hui | ||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ma Ying-jeou | ||||||||||||||||
9th and 12th Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party | |||||||||||||||||
In office 15 October 2007 – 12 January 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
Secretary General | Cho Jung-tai | ||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Yu Shyi-kun | ||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Frank Hsieh (acting) | ||||||||||||||||
In office 21 July 2002 – 11 December 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
Secretary General | Chang Chun-hsiung | ||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Frank Hsieh | ||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ker Chien-ming (acting) | ||||||||||||||||
10th Mayor of Taipei | |||||||||||||||||
In office 25 December 1994 – 25 December 1998 | |||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Huang Ta-chou (as appointed mayor) | ||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ma Ying-jeou | ||||||||||||||||
Member of the Legislative Yuan | |||||||||||||||||
In office 1 February 1990 – 25 December 1994 | |||||||||||||||||
Constituency | Taipei I | ||||||||||||||||
Taipei City Councillor | |||||||||||||||||
In office 25 December 1981 – 28 September 1985 | |||||||||||||||||
Constituency | Taipei II (Songshan, Neihu, Nangang) | ||||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Guantian District, Tainan County, Taiwan (now Tainan) | 12 October 1950||||||||||||||||
Political party | Democratic Progressive (1987–2008, 2013–2019, since 2020–) | ||||||||||||||||
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Spouse | |||||||||||||||||
Residence(s) | Gushan District, Kaohsiung | ||||||||||||||||
Education | National Taiwan University (LLB) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳水扁 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈水扁 | ||||||||||||||||
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Chen Shui-bian (Chinese: 陳水扁; born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), ending the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is sometimes referred to by the nickname A-Bian (阿扁).
A lawyer, Chen entered politics in 1980 during the Kaohsiung Incident as a member of the Tangwai movement and was elected to the Taipei City Council in 1981. In 1985, as the editor of the weekly pro-democracy magazine Neo-Formosa, he was jailed for libel following publication of an article critical of Elmer Fung, a college philosophy professor who was later elected a New Party legislator. After being released, Chen helped found the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1986 and was elected a member of the Legislative Yuan in 1989, and Mayor of Taipei in 1994.[1]
Chen won the 2000 presidential election on 18 March with 39% of the vote as a result of a split of factions within the Kuomintang, when James Soong ran for the presidency as an independent against the party nominee Lien Chan, becoming the first non-member of the Kuomintang to hold the office of president. Although Chen received high approval ratings during the first few weeks of his term, his popularity sharply dropped due to alleged corruption within his administration and the inability to pass legislation against the opposition KMT, who controlled the Legislative Yuan. In 2004, he won reelection by a narrow margin after surviving a shooting while campaigning the day before the election. Opponents suspected him of staging the incident for political purposes. However, the case was officially closed in 2005 with all evidence pointing to a single deceased suspect, Chen Yi-hsiung.[2][3]
In 2009, Chen and his wife Wu Shu-chen were convicted on two bribery charges. Chen was sentenced to 19 years in Taipei Prison, reduced from a life sentence on appeal, but was granted medical parole on 5 January 2015.[4][5][6] Chen's supporters have claimed that his trial and sentencing were politically motivated retribution by the Kuomintang for his years in power.[7][8][9]
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