Pasuya Yao

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Pasuya Yao
Yao Wen-chih
MLY
姚文智
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2012 – 18 November 2018[1]
Preceded byJustin Chou
Succeeded byHo Chih-wei
ConstituencyTaipei II
22nd Director-General of the Government Information Office
In office
13 March 2005 – 25 January 2006
Prime MinisterFrank Hsieh
Preceded byLin Chia-lung
Succeeded byCheng Wen-tsan
Personal details
Born (1965-12-04) 4 December 1965 (age 60)
Tianmu, Shilin District, Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan[2]
PartyDemocratic Progressive Party
EducationFu Jen Catholic University (BA)

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.

Political career

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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

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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

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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% File:Elected candidate symbol (voting stamp, Taiwan).svg
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

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File:Taipei 2018.png
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) File:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg Independent 5,617 0.40%
2 Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) File:Emblem of the Kuomintang.svg Kuomintang 577,566 40.82%
3 Pasuya Yao Democratic Progressive Party 244,641 17.29%
4 Ko Wen-je File:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg Independent 580,820 41.05%
5 Lee Si-kuen (李錫錕) File:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg Independent 6,172 0.44%
Total voters 　2,164,155
Valid votes 　1,414,816
Invalid votes 　
Voter turnout 　65.37%

Filmmaking

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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]

References

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