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In this Chinese name, the family name is Chou.
Chiu Wu-liu
MLY
周五六
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 1999 – 31 January 2002
ConstituencyTainan County
Personal details
Born (1950-08-08) 8 August 1950 (age 74)
NationalityTaiwanese
Political partyPeople First Party (since 2015)
Other political
affiliations		Kuomintang (until 2015)
Occupationpolitician

Chou Wu-liu (Chinese: 周五六; pinyin: Zhōu Wǔliù; born 8 August 1950) is a Taiwanese politician.

Career

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Chou attended the National Tseng-Wen Senior Agricultural and Industrial Vocational School [zh].[1]

Chou was elected to four consecutive terms on the Tainan County Council. During his third term, he was elected deputy speaker, and served as speaker in his fourth term.[1] Chou was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1998 as a representative of Tainan County. In 2000, Chou, Lo Fu-chu, and Lin Ming-yi were charged with assaulting their legislative colleague Yu Jane-daw in a meeting on 15 July 1999.[2][3] The Taipei District Court ruled in March 2001 that the three legislators were to serve 59 days in prison.[4] Upon appeal to the Taiwan High Court, the trio's sentence was increased to five months imprisonment or a NT$135,000 fine. The verdict was delivered a day after Chou completed his term in the legislature, which ended his legislative immunity, and declared final.[5] During Chou's legislative tenure, his friend Lo assaulted another lawmaker, Diane Lee.[6] When the Legislative Yuan's Discipline Committee was convened to vote on an appropriate response, Chou avoided attending the proceedings.[7] After the committee suggested a six-month suspension for Lu, and forwarded the proposal for a vote by the full legislature, Chou attended the session to vote against it.[6]

In 2006, judge Hsu Hung-chi of the Taiwan High Court was arrested for taking bribes from Chou.[8] Hsu had reportedly accepted NT$10 million from Chou, and subsequently ruled in a 2001 court case that Chou was not guilty of electoral fraud during his tenure as vice speaker of the Tainan County Council.[9][10] Hsu was impeached by the Control Yuan in November 2008,[9] and removed from office in June 2009.[10]

Chou is married to Chen Hsiu-hsia.[8][10] He switched party affiliations from the Kuomintang to the People First Party (PFP) on 14 August 2015.[11] Chou resigned as secretary-general of the Tainan City Council in September 2015 to take a position on James Soong's 2016 presidential campaign. After Chou refused a nomination from the PFP, the party chose to nominate his wife as a candidate in the 2016 legislative election.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Chou Wu-liu (4)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. ^ Lin, Irene (12 August 2000). "Lo Fu-chu makes court appearance". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  3. ^ Lin, Irene (28 September 2000). "Lo faces judiciary chief". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  4. ^ Low, Stephanie (4 March 2001). "Assault verdict meets wide criticism". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  5. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (1 February 2002). "Lo Fu-chu has his assault sentenced raised a notch". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b Low, Stephanie (13 April 2001). "Legislature decides to suspend Lo". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  7. ^ Low, Stephanie (4 April 2001). "Committee recommends Lo be suspended". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  8. ^ a b Chang, Rich (2 July 2006). "Taiwan High Court judge detained for questioning on suspicion of bribery". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Judge accused of gambling". Taipei Times. 19 November 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  10. ^ a b c Liu, Chi-yuan (7 June 2009). "Tainan judge relieved of duty over mahjong ties". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  11. ^ "南市議會成立親民黨團 挺宋由台南出發". Apple Daily (in Chinese). 14 August 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  12. ^ 蔡文居 (25 November 2015). "列親民黨不分區 陳秀霞坦言周五六不想再從政". Liberty Tiimes (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 June 2019.
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