Yen Chin-fu

Yen Chin-fu (Chinese: 顏錦福; pinyin: Yán Jǐnfú; born 1938) is a Taiwanese politician. A co-founder of the Democratic Progressive Party, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2005.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yen (顏).
Yen Chin-fu

MLY
顏錦福
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 1999 – 31 January 2005
ConstituencyRepublic of China
In office
1 February 1993 – 31 January 1999
ConstituencyTaipei 2 (South)
Personal details
Born1938 (age 82–83)
Tainan Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan
NationalityTaiwanese
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party (since 1986)
Occupationpolitician

Education

Yen attended primary school in Chiayi, and later National Chiayi Senior High School, before graduating from National Beigang Senior High School in Yunlin. He then attended National Taiwan Normal University, followed by the Institute of Computer Sciences at National Chiao Tung University.[1][2]

Political career

Yen was jailed for sedition from 1962 to 1964.[3] He won election to the Taipei City Council in 1985.[4] In September 1986, Yen and seventeen others founded the Democratic Progressive Party.[5] Within the party, Yen was affiliated with the Welfare State Alliance.[6] Yen was the original candidate for Taipei 2 in the legislative elections of 1989, but ended his campaign to support Yeh Chu-lan.[7] He was elected to a legislative seat in 1992, and reelected in 1995, after forming a electoral coalition with Yeh, Shen Fu-hsiung, and Huang Tien-fu.[8][9] Yen represented Taipei until 1999, after which he was assigned to the party list and elected to two terms via proportional representation.

Shortly after the 921 earthquake of 1999, Yen proposed a bill to strengthen oversight of charitable donations.[10] After Lin Yi-hsiung stepped down from the DPP chairmanship in 2000, Yen was named a candidate for the position, which eventually went to Frank Hsieh.[11][12] Though initially opposed to the idea that President Chen Shui-bian assume the party chairmanship concurrently with his position as head of state,[13][14] Yen later dropped a counter-proposal to hold the 2002 chairmanship election as originally scheduled.[15]

Personal

Yen is an occasional contributor to the Taipei Times.[16][17] His daughter, Yen Sheng-kuan, has served on the Taipei City Council.[18]

References
  1. "Yen Ching-fu (3)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  2. "Yen Ching-fu (4)". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  3. Chen, Hsiao-yi; Tu, Chu-min; Hsu, Stacy (7 January 2014). "White Terror still felt: city councilor". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. "Yen Ching-fu (5)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  5. Chuang, Jimmy (12 December 2002). "Prosecutors grill councilor". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  6. Ko, Shu-ling (3 March 2002). "DPP split on who should run the party". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  7. Tseng, Wei-chen (24 July 2011). "FEATURE: Days of political prisoner legislators near their end". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  8. "DPP races to watch". Taiwan Communique (69). October 1995. ISSN 1605-9433.
  9. "The DPP wins, but is hampered by factionalism" (PDF). Taiwan Communique (69): 6. January 1996. ISSN 1605-9433.
  10. Yu, Sen-lun (29 December 1999). "Quake group proposes new legislation to help monitor charitable donations". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  11. Hung, Chen-ling (25 May 2000). "DPP reschedules party chairman vote for June". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  12. Hung, Chen-ling (27 May 2000). "Lin confirms he is stepping down". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  13. Hsu, Crystal (14 April 2002). "Lawmaker says Chen shouldn't be chair". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  14. Ko, Shu-ling (6 March 2002). "DPP leadership endorses Chen for party chairman". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  15. Ko, Shu-ling (17 April 2002). "DPP members have change of heart". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  16. Yen, Ching-fu (3 January 2001). "Politics overshadow the needs of the people". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  17. Yen, Chin-fu (11 May 2001). "Too early to consider a coalition Cabinet". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  18. Chuang, Jimmy (13 December 2002). "Yen denies daughter won race through vote-buying". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
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