Pasuya Yao

Pasuya Yao
Yao Wen-chih
MLY
姚文智
Official portrait, 2014
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 59)
Tianmu, Shilin District, Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan[2]
NationalityTaiwan
Political 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

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

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

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 1,561 0.86%
5 Wynn Pan (潘懷宗) New Party 65,967 36.43%
6 Pasuya Yao DPP 107,366 59.29%
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

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

Filmmaking

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

  1. ^ Legislative Yuan. "姚文智委員". Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  2. ^ 民視新聞 Formosa TV News. "【台灣演義】姚文智". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  3. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (2005-03-14). "Service to Hsieh boosts new GIO boss' career". Taipei Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  4. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (18 March 2005). "New GIO minister vows to protect press freedom". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  5. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (30 August 2005). "A new look at the GIO and its task". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  6. ^ Young, W. T. (3 March 2006). "Hsieh to run for president in 2008 poll". China Post. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  7. ^ Wang, Chris (15 May 2014). "Pasuya Yao wins DPP's first-stage Taipei primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  8. ^ Wang, Chris (14 June 2014). "Ko wins over Yao in DPP Taipei mayor public poll". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  9. ^ Wang, Chris (17 June 2014). "DPP tells Ko Wen-je it will support him in poll". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  10. ^ Wei, Katherine (30 November 2014). "Ko defeats Lien by a landslide 240,000 votes". China Post. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  11. ^ Chen, Wei-han (17 January 2016). "'League' candidates win three of eight Taipei constituencies". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  12. ^ Su, Fang-ho; Hetherington, William (24 July 2017). "Pasuya Yao throws hat in mayoral ring". Taipei Times. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  13. ^ Shih, Hsiu-chuan (18 November 2018). "Taipei mayoral candidates present platforms, Yao resigns as lawmaker". Central News Agency. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  14. ^ "2018 Local Elections". Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  15. ^ Huang, Chien-hao; Chin, Jonathan (2 December 2018). "Pasuya Yao moves from politics to documentaries". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  16. ^ Wang, Hsin-yu; Lin, Sean (28 July 2022). "Crowdfunding launched for movie about female political prisoners in Taiwan". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  17. ^ Lo, James (9 September 2022). "'Untold Herstory' film to be on big screens across Taiwan late October". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
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