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Hsu Chen-wei
Taiwanese politician (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hsu Chen-wei (Chinese: 徐榛蔚; pinyin: Xú Zhēnwèi; Wade–Giles: Hsü2 Chên1-wei4;[1] born 12 October 1968) is a Taiwanese politician who currently serves as magistrate of Hualien County since 25 December 2018.[2] She was re-elected in 2022, with 64.7% of the vote, defeating Kolas Yotaka.[3]
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On 20 December 2009, Hsu was appointed as the deputy county magistrate by her former husband Fu Kun-chi.[4] They had just divorced 2 days earlier on 18 December.[4] Two days later, Hsu's appointment was withdrawn by the Ministry of the Interior on 22 December 2009 as the ministry deemed the divorce as a political fake marriage and the appointment was a conflict of interest with appointing a close relation to a government office.[5] In March 2010, Fu was fined NT$1 million by the Control Yuan for conflict of interest.[6]
In 2011, Hualien District Court found both of them guilty of having a false divorce to circumvent Public Officials Conflict of Interest Prevention Act (Chinese: 公職人員利益衝突迴避法) which bans the appointment of family members to political posts.[4] Fu and Hsu were both sentenced to six and four months of jail respectively.[4] Both opted to pay fines to avoid jail as the law allowed conversion of jail time to fines in certain circumstances.[7]
Although Hsu's appointment as was withdrawn, she served in other positions during Fu's tenure as magistrate. Hsu was appointed the chairperson of Hualien China Youth Corps (Chinese: 救國團花蓮團) during Fu's first term as magistrate. She was then later appointed the captain of Hualien's Community Patrol (Chinese: 花蓮縣巡守) and subsequently the head of National Women's League (Chinese: 婦女後援會).[8]
On 29 November 2014, Hsu participated in the Hualien County magistrate election as an independent candidate.[9][10] Accordingly to the Taipei Times, her participation was deemed as a backup in the event her former husband Fu, who was also running as an independent candidate, was indicted for stocks manipulation before the election.[9][10] Hsu lost the election, placing forth, to former husband Fu.[7]
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In 2016, she was elected as the member of the Legislative Yuan for the Kuomintang party-list in the proportional representation constituency until her inauguration as Hualien magistrate in 2018.
In 2018, Hsu was chosen by Kuomintang (KMT) to run for the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.[11] She won the elections with 71.52% of the votes.[12]
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