Rosalia Wu (; born 28 May 1974) is a

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politician. Elected to the Taipei City Council in 2006, she served until 2016, when she won election to the

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Education

Wu was born in Taipei County on 28 May 1974. She is a graduate of

Fu Jen Catholic University Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...

, where she studied Spanish and Japanese, before pursuing a master's of arts within National Taiwan University's Institute of Political Science.

Political career

Wu is affiliated with the former

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of the

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. She was elected to the DPP's Central Standing Committee in 2012. Wu was elected to the Taipei City Council three times, in 2006, 2010, and 2014. For a portion of her time on the city council, Wu served as the DPP's caucus whip. While on the council, she showed an interest in environmental and infrastructure issues. In 2009, after a televised advertisement had been taken off the air due to a violation of the Satellite Radio and Television Act, Wu worked to remove a printed equivalent from the sides of Taipei buses. She sought to reopen the

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for its intended use after the 2010

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, but did not succeed. During the 2016 legislative elections, Wu defeated Chen Hsi-yu in an interparty primary. She was named the sole Pan-Green Coalition candidate for

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, and won election to the legislature by joining an electoral coalition of seven others, including

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and Pasuya Yao. Wu defeated the district's incumbent representative,

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, winning 95,000 votes. As a legislator, she has focused her attention on academia and education in Taiwan. Wu is opposed to corporal punishment in schools, and to education minister Wu Se-hwa's proposed senior high school curriculum changes, which were implemented despite a

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. She spoke out against a 2016 proposal to merge

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and

National Cheng Kung University National Cheng Kung University (NCKU; ) is a public research university located in Tainan, Taiwan. The university is best known for engineering, computer science, medicine, and planning and design. As a top university in Taiwan, NCKU has played ...

, stating, "I am against amalgamation for the sake of amalgamation." In March 2017, Wu said that Fu Jen Catholic University College of Social Sciences dean Hsia Lin-ching did not do enough to investigate allegations of sexual assault, and berated university administration for giving Hsia a light penalty. Shortly after her comments, Fu Jen students went to the Legislative Yuan to meet Wu, who was not there.

References

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