Tu Wen-ching (; born 30 October 1954) is a Taiwanese politician.

Political career

Tu is a member of the

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, and has served on the party's Central Review Committee and Central Evaluation Committee. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 1998, and reelected twice in 2001 and 2004. In 2002, he and other DPP legislators accused

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of fraud. In 2005, Tu called for the resignation of Economics Minister

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, whom he accused of not working enough to solve the flooding that had plagued

Miaoli County Miaoli County (Mandarin Pinyin: ''miáo lì xiàn''; Hakka PFS: ''Mèu-li̍t-yen''; Hokkien POJ: ''Biâu-le̍k-koān'' or ''Miâu-le̍k-koān'') is a county in western Taiwan. Miaoli is adjacent with Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City to the nort ...

. The next year, Tu gained media attention for berating a customs official who confiscated twenty cartons of cigarettes from him after Tu had returned from an overseas trip. Later that year, he was involved in a verbal altercation during

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celebrations. In 2007, the

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accused Tu of improperly profiting off land he had rented from the

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to use as his campaign office. In 2008, the KMT called for an investigation targeting Tu and eleven other politicians, including Liu Shen-liang,

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, and

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for accepting donations from

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. Tu was listed as a controversial candidate by the Taiwan Competitiveness Forum prior to his 2008 campaign, and lost his seat in the legislature in that election cycle to

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. He was elected the director of the Democratic Progressive Party's

branch in May 2008. He put his name forward for the 14 March 2009 by-election called after the annulment of Lee Yi-ting's electoral victory, and lost to

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. Tu ran as an independent in the local elections of 2009, and became the mayor of Yuanli, Miaoli. During his mayoralty, the township discussed the construction of wind turbines in the area, and dealt with an instance of graffiti. He made another legislative run for Miaoli County Constituency 1 in 2016, and lost to Chen Chao-ming.

References

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