The president of the Legislative Yuan is the presiding officer 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 ...

of the

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. The incumbent president is

Yu Shyi-kun You Si-kun (; born 25 April 1948), also romanized Yu Shyi-kun, is a Taiwanese politician serving as a member and the president of the Legislative Yuan. He was one of the founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and is known ...

, a

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 ...

legislator and the second DPP President of the Legislative Yuan.

Election

The president is elected by and from among all members of the Yuan in a preparatory meeting held on the first reporting day of the first session of each Legislative Yuan, and he shall serve a term the same length as that of other members.

Duty

The president presides over the Yuan Sittings and the meetings of the Committee of the Entire Yuan and is responsible for the administration of the Yuan. In the cases in which the president of the Legislative Yuan is unable to attend to his or her duties, the

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acts in his or her place.

List of presidents of the Legislative Yuan

Pre-1947 Constitution

During the Nationalist government era, the President of Legislative Yuan was appointed by the Central Committee of the

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 ...

(Nationalist Party).

1947 Constitution

The first Legislative Yuan election under the 1947 ''

Constitution of the Republic of China The Constitution of the Republic of China is the fifth and current constitution of the Republic of China (ROC), ratified by the Kuomintang during the session on 25 December 1946, in Nanjing, and adopted on 25 December 1947. The constitution, ...

'' was held in 1948. However, the

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retreated to Taiwan in 1949. Members of the first Legislative Yuan had their terms extended indefinitely and the sessions of the first Legislative Yuan were conducted in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

until December 31, 1991 while some supplementary members kept serving until January 31, 1993.

1991 Constitution amendment

The '' Additional Articles of the Constitution'' promulgated in 1991 mandated the total re-election of

Timeline

Speakership age-related data (post-1947 constitution)

As of , two former presidents of the Legislative Yuan are still alive. The most recent death of a former premier was that of

Liu Sung-pan Liu Sung-pan (; 3 December 1931 — 18 November 2016) was a Taiwanese politician. He served as the President of the Legislative Yuan from 1992 to 1999. He was the Legislative Yuan's first Taiwan-born speaker and presided over a legislature enti ...

(who was president of the Yuan during 1992–1999) on 18 November 2016.

Oldest living

Green text and an asterisk mark the inauguration date of a speaker older than any living former speaker. Other dates are the deaths of the then-oldest speaker.

References

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