Chao Cheng-yu (; born 29 March 1966) is a Taiwanese politician who is a member of the

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel v ...

for Taoyuan 6.

Career

Chao served three terms as a Member of Taoyuan County Council as a member of

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

. He lost his primary in 2014 and subsequently became an

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. He ran for a seat in Ward 3, a five-member ward, for

Taoyuan City Council The Taoyuan City Council (TYCC; ) is the elected municipal council of Taoyuan City, Republic of China (Taiwan). The council composes of 60 councillors elected once every four years by single non-transferable vote, most recently in the 2022 Taiwan ...

and was elected with most votes. He ran for a seat in the

as an independent for Taoyuan 6 in the 2016 election with the endorsement of the

Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist and centre-left political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Controlling both the Republic of China presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan, it is the majori ...

(DPP). Though Chao is an independent, he caucuses with the DPP. As a legislator, Chao has been involved in discussions about the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, general oversight of public transportation, and the

National Communications Commission The National Communications Commission (NCC; ) is an independent statutory agency of Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) responsible for regulating the development of the telecommunication and broadcasting industries, promoting compe ...

Legal judgements

In 2020, Chao was implicated in collecting bribes of tens of millions of yuan from a pair of funeral businesses. The following investigation revealed that in 2018, after receiving a bribe, Chao pressured officials from the

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to rezone nearly 20,000 square meters of land in the

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. Investigators launched a search of the legislator's home to find NT$9.2 million in "bundles of cash". Investigators also photographed the Legislator's assistant Lin Chia-chi throwing a bag of money out of a car window that contained matching bills to the money found at Chao's home. The Taipei District Court ruled in July 2022 that Chen had was guilty of tax evasion, sentenced him six months imprisonment or a fine, and ordered to pay NT$60,000.

Electoral record

Taoyuan city counciller, ward 3

* Five seats up for election, 1 reserved for female candidate * Eligible voters: 136,105 * Turnout (percentage): 87,424 (64.23%) * Valid votes (percentage): 85,433 (97.72%) * Rejected votes (percentage): 1,991 (2.28%)

2016 Legislative Yuan election

* Eligible voters: 248,233 * Turnout (percentage): 167,257 (67.38%) * Valid votes (percentage): 163,934 (98.01%) * Rejected votes (percentage): 3,323 (1.99%) * Incumbent is in bold

References

External links

Official Legislative Yuan page

Legislator Facebook page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chao, Cheng-yu 1966 births Living people Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan Ming Chuan University alumni Taoyuan City Members of the Legislative Yuan Members of the 9th Legislative Yuan Members of the 10th Legislative Yuan Taoyuan City Councilors Taiwanese politicians convicted of corruption