Lin Cho-shui
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Lin Cho-shui MLY |
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| 林濁水 | |
Lin in August 2012
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
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In office 1 February 2002 – 15 November 2006 |
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| Constituency | Republic of China |
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In office 1 February 1993 – 31 January 2002 |
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| Constituency | Tainan 1 |
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25 March 1947 Puli, Nantou |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party (since 1986) |
| Alma mater | National Chengchi University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Lin Cho-shui (Chinese: 林濁水; born 25 March 1947) is a Taiwanese writer, newspaper editor and politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2006. He was a longtime member of the Democratic Progressive Party's New Tide faction.
Lin earned a bachelor's degree at National Chengchi University.
Lin was an original member of the New Tide faction, a group within the Democratic Progressive Party formed by tangwai movement activists to oppose DPP politician Kang Ning-hsiang and later supportive of Chen Shui-bian. Lin helped write the party's founding charter. In 1998, it was suggested that the party platform be revised. Lin and Julian Kuo drafted an amendment delineating the DPP's acceptance of the Republic of China as the official name for Taiwan. By January 1999, it was decided that changes to the party platform would not be made.
Lin was elected to the Legislative Yuan three times as a representative of Tainan 1. For a portion of his first term, Lin was the Democratic Progressive Party caucus whip. In 1999, the Ministry of the Interior proposed a law on referendums. Lin opposed the bill, because the MOI draft did not make Taiwanese sovereignty an issue eligible for referendum. He won the 2001 and 2004 legislative elections via party-list proportional representation. In July 2003, President Chen Shui-bian recommended that the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant and Taiwan's membership in the World Trade Organization both be considered for referendum, a move Lin supported. When the Referendum Act was promulgated in December 2003, a referendum on cross-strait relations did indeed occur in March 2004. A "sunshine code" provision, which mandated the use of blind trusts for all members of the Executive Yuan and every overseas diplomat, passed in February 2006 with support from Lin. In June 2006, the Statute Governing Preferential Treatment for Retired Presidents and Vice Presidents was revised, lowering pensions for former leaders of Taiwan. Lin stated that the amendments were not adequate. Also that month, Lin asked Chiou I-jen to step down as claims of corruption within the Chen administration began. Lin had pledged to resign if Chen were detained, and gave up his seat on 13 November 2006, officially leaving the legislature on 15 November. Lin declared his candidacy for the legislative elections of 2008, and quit the race after winning only 11.01% of the vote in a party primary.
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