Pasuya Yao

Yao Wen-chih (Chinese: 姚文智; pinyin: Yáo Wénzhì; Wade–Giles: Yao Wen-chih; born 4 December 1965), also known by the appropriated^[3] Tsou name Pasuya Yao, is a Taiwanese film maker and former politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2012 to 2018.

Pasuya Yao Yao Wen-chih MLY
姚文智
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2012 – 18 November 2018[1]
Preceded by	Justin Chou
Succeeded by	Ho Chih-wei
Constituency	Taipei II
22nd Director-General of the Government Information Office
In office 13 March 2005 – 25 January 2006
Prime Minister	Frank Hsieh
Preceded by	Lin Chia-lung
Succeeded by	Cheng Wen-tsan
Personal details
Born	(1965-12-04) 4 December 1965 (age 59) Tianmu, Shilin District, Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan[2]
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party
Education	Fu Jen Catholic University (BA)

Political career

Yao, a former journalist, was named the minister of the Government Information Office in March 2005.^[4][5] By 2006, he had stepped down.^[6]

2014 Taipei City mayoral campaign

Yao ran for the mayoralty of Taipei City in the 2014 local elections. He won the first round of a party primary held in May,^[7] but lost to independent candidate Ko Wen-je in an opinion poll held the next month.^[8] The Democratic Progressive Party chose to back Ko's independent bid for the office,^[9] and he defeated Kuomintang candidate Sean Lien.^[10]

2016 Republic of China legislative election

On 16 January 2016, Yao won the legislative election for Taipei City 2nd constituency representing Shilin District and Datong District.^[11]

2016 Republic of China Legislative Election Result
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Wang Ming-tzong (王銘宗)	Independent	1,342	0.74%
2	Chen Min-chien (陳民乾)	Taiwan Independence Party	865	0.48%
3	Wu Chun-te (吳俊德)	Faith and Hope League	3,550	1.96%
4	Lin Xing-rong (林幸蓉)	National Health Service Alliance [zh]	1,561	0.86%
5	Wynn Pan (潘懷宗)	New Party	65,967	36.43%
6	Pasuya Yao	DPP	107,366	59.29%
7	Chen Jian-bin (陳建斌)	Free Taiwan Party	433	0.24%

Yao announced that he would contest the Taipei mayoralty for the second time in July 2017.^[12] He resigned from the legislature in November 2018 to focus on his mayoral campaign.^[13]

2018 Taipei City mayoral election

2018 Taipei City mayoral election result map

2018 Taipei City mayoral results[14]
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Wu Er-yang (吳蕚洋)	Independent	5,617	0.40%
2	Ting Shou-chung (丁守中)	Kuomintang	577,566	40.82%
3	Pasuya Yao	Democratic Progressive Party	244,641	17.29%
4	Ko Wen-je	Independent	580,820	41.05%
5	Lee Si-kuen (李錫錕)	Independent	6,172	0.44%
Total voters			2,164,155
Valid votes			1,414,816
Invalid votes
Voter turnout			65.37%

Filmmaking

Yao retired from politics after finishing third behind Ko Wen-je and Ting Shou-chung, stating that he would begin working on documentaries about activists Peng Ming-min and Cheng Nan-jung.^[15] Yao's film production company released the crowdfunded film Untold Herstory in 2022, on which Yao was credited as producer.^[16][17]