Lee Hung-chun
{{Short description|Taiwanese engineer and politician}}
{{Infobox_officeholder
| name = Lee Hung-chun
| native_name = {{nobold|李鴻鈞}}
| image = Lee Hung-Chun - by Liao Chen-Tao 01 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2016
| order = Acting
| office = President of the Control Yuan
| status = Interim
| term_start = 10 February 2025
| term_end =
| president = Chen Chu
| office1 = 6th Vice President of the Control Yuan
| appointer1 = Tsai Ing-wen
| president1 = Chen Chu
| term_start1 = 1 August 2022
| term_end1 =
| predecessor1 = Paelabang Danapan
| successor1 =
| order2 = Secretary-General of People First Party
| 1blankname2 = Chairman
| 1namedata2 = James Soong
| term_start2 = 9 April 2019
| term_end2 = 30 May 2022
| predecessor2 = Fu Hsueh-peng (acting)
| successor2 = Ma Chieh-ming
| office3 = Member of the Legislative Yuan
| term_start3 = 1 February 2002
| term_end3 = 31 January 2020
| constituency3 = Taipei County II & IV
New Taipei IV
Party-list (PFP)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|5|11}}
| birth_place = New Taipei, Taiwan
| relatives = Lee Hong-yuan {{small|(brother)}}
| party = Independent (after 2022)
People First Party (2000–2022)
Kuomintang (2007–2015)
| education = Lee-Ming Institute of Technology (BS)
Nihon University (PhD)
}}
Lee Hung-chun ({{zh|t=李鴻鈞|p=Lǐ Hóngjūn}}; born 11 May 1959) is a Taiwanese engineer and politician who serves as the vice president of the Control Yuan since 1 August 2022. Before his vice-presidentship, he serves as the member of Legislative Yuan for eighteen years from 2002 to 2020.
Early life and education
Lee Hung-chun's father Lee Teng-hui was the former head of Taishan, New Taipei. His elder brother is politician Lee Hong-yuan.{{cite news |last1=陳 |first1=心瑜 |title=前泰山鄉長 李鴻源父李騰輝逝世 |url=https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20170108001708-260407 |access-date=9 May 2022 |work=China Times |date=8 January 2017 |language=zh}}
Lee Hung-chun was born in present-day New Taipei on 11 May 1959.{{cite news |title=李鴻鈞 |url=http://election.ltn.com.tw/2016/legislator/candidate/4/346 |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=Liberty Times |date=2016 |language=zh}}{{cite news |title=2號 李鴻鈞 |url=https://election.ltn.com.tw/2020/legislator/candidates/All/464 |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=Liberty Times |date=2020 |language=zh}} After graduating from the Lee-Ming Institute of Technology, he earned a doctorate in structural engineering from Nihon University.
Political career
Lee won election to the Legislative Yuan in 2001 as a People First Party candidate for Taipei County's second district.{{cite news |title=Lee Hung-chun (5) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=11379 |access-date=10 May 2022 |agency=Legislative Yuan}} He retained the office in 2004.{{cite news |title=Lee Hung-chun (6) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=11624 |access-date=10 May 2022 |agency=Legislative Yuan}} Lee subsequently served two consecutive terms as legislator representing Taipei County's fourth district,{{cite news |title=Lee Hung-chun (7) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=11840 |access-date=10 May 2022 |agency=Legislative Yuan}}{{cite news |title=Lee Hung-chun (8) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=11968 |access-date=10 May 2022 |agency=Legislative Yuan}} followed by a single term on the PFP party list.{{cite news |title=Lee Hung-chun (9) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=12091 |agency=Legislative Yuan}} As the Ninth Legislative Yuan opened, Lee received four votes to serve as the body's speaker.{{cite news |last1=Hsu |first1=Stacy |title=First non-KMT legislative speaker is Su |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/02/02/2003638625 |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=2 February 2016}} Though Lee ranked second on the party list during the 2020 legislative election, the People First Party lost all of its seats and was supplanted as a third party by the Taiwan People's Party.
In May 2022, Tsai Ing-wen nominated Lee for the vacant vice presidency of the Control Yuan. Lee stated that he would resign his position as PFP secretary-general, which he had held since 2019,{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Yun |last2=Chung |first2=Jake |title=PFP says media distorted Soong’s Xinhua interview |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/05/01/2003714351 |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=1 May 2019}} as well as his party membership.{{cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Flor |last2=Wang |first2=Cheng-chung |title=Lee Hung-chun nominated for Control Yuan vice president |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202205090011 |access-date=10 May 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=9 May 2022}} He was formally confirmed to the Control Yuan on 24 May 2022 by a 99–2 vote of the Legislative Yuan.{{cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Yang-yu |last2=Kao |first2=Evelyn |title=Lee Hung-chun confirmed as Control Yuan vice president |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202205240014 |access-date=25 May 2022 |agency=Central News Agency |date=24 May 2022}}
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