Liu Yi-te
| Liu Yi-te | |
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| 劉一德 | |
| Chairman of the Taiwan Solidarity Union | |
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Assumed office 16 April 2016 |
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| Preceded by |
Lin Chih-chia (acting) Huang Kun-huei |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 1 February 1992 – 20 May 2000 |
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| Constituency | Taipei |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 April 1960 Chiayi, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Taiwan Solidarity Union (since 2001) |
| Other political affiliations |
Democratic Progressive Party (until 2001) |
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University |
| Profession | politician |
Liu Yi-te (Chinese: 劉一德; born 15 April 1960) is a Taiwanese politician. His name is sometimes spelled Lau Yi-te.
Liu is of Mainland Chinese descent, and became active in the tangwai movement as a student. In a 2001 interview, Liu credited a classmate at Chiayi Senior High School with sparking his interest in politics by reporting Liu to administration for harboring anti-government views, after Liu had tried to start a discussion about a local politician. As Taiwan was then a one-party state led by the Kuomintang, Liu was slapped upon refusing to retract his comments about the politician in a written statement. Liu later met Lee Wen-chung and Lai Chin-lin at National Taiwan University, where he led a club advocating for Taiwan independence.
Liu ran in the December 1991 National Assembly elections and took office in 1992 as a representative of Taipei. He won reelection in 1996, and was named Democratic Progressive Party caucus leader. From this position, Liu worked with senior Kuomintang members of the National Assembly and passed a resolution to extended the term of the National Assembly while also reducing its membership by mandating that the next assembly election take place under a system of proportional representation. The passage of the resolution drew criticism from both the Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party headquarters. The Judicial Yuan ruled against the term extension in 2000, but Liu subsequently supported an initiative to postpone the election date of 6 May mandated by the Judicial Yuan. Liu later chastised members of the Judicial Yuan and worked with Kuomintang assembly delegates to remove the justices' lifetime stipend, though he refused to endorse abolition of the Judicial Yuan itself. Another vote on the fate of the National Assembly was taken in April 2000, in which Liu and Chen Chin-te of the DPP, as well as their KMT counterparts, agreed to end the National Assembly on 20 May 2000, passing many of its powers to the Legislative Yuan. After stepping down from the National Assembly, Liu was named director of the DPP's organizational development department.
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