Chou Wu-liu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chou.

Chou Wu-liu (Chinese: 周五六; pinyin: Zhōu Wǔliù; born 8 August 1950) is a Taiwanese politician.

Chiu Wu-liu MLY
周五六
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 1999 – 31 January 2002
Constituency	Tainan County
Personal details
Born	(1950-08-08) 8 August 1950 (age 74)
Nationality	Taiwanese
Political party	People First Party (since 2015)
Other political affiliations	Kuomintang (until 2015)

Career

Chou attended the National Tseng-Wen Senior Agricultural and Industrial Vocational School [zh].^[1]

Chou was elected to four consecutive terms on the Tainan County Council. During his third term, he was elected deputy speaker, and served as speaker in his fourth term.^[1] Chou was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1998 as a representative of Tainan County. In 2000, Chou, Lo Fu-chu, and Lin Ming-yi were charged with assaulting their legislative colleague Yu Jane-daw in a meeting on 15 July 1999.^[2][3] The Taipei District Court ruled in March 2001 that the three legislators were to serve 59 days in prison.^[4] Upon appeal to the Taiwan High Court, the trio's sentence was increased to five months imprisonment or a NT$135,000 fine. The verdict was delivered a day after Chou completed his term in the legislature, which ended his legislative immunity, and declared final.^[5] During Chou's legislative tenure, his friend Lo assaulted another lawmaker, Diane Lee.^[6] When the Legislative Yuan's Discipline Committee was convened to vote on an appropriate response, Chou avoided attending the proceedings.^[7] After the committee suggested a six-month suspension for Lu, and forwarded the proposal for a vote by the full legislature, Chou attended the session to vote against it.^[6]

In 2006, judge Hsu Hung-chi of the Taiwan High Court was arrested for taking bribes from Chou.^[8] Hsu had reportedly accepted NT$10 million from Chou, and subsequently ruled in a 2001 court case that Chou was not guilty of electoral fraud during his tenure as vice speaker of the Tainan County Council.^[9][10] Hsu was impeached by the Control Yuan in November 2008,^[9] and removed from office in June 2009.^[10]

Chou is married to Chen Hsiu-hsia.^[8][10] He switched party affiliations from the Kuomintang to the People First Party (PFP) on 14 August 2015.^[11] Chou resigned as secretary-general of the Tainan City Council in September 2015 to take a position on James Soong's 2016 presidential campaign. After Chou refused a nomination from the PFP, the party chose to nominate his wife as a candidate in the 2016 legislative election.^[12]