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This article lists the current magistrates and mayors, the head of government, of the primary administrative divisions of the Republic of China (Taiwan).Following the dissolution of the provincial governments in 2018 after the 1998 streamlining of its provinces, [1] local autonomous bodies including the 6 special municipalities and 2 titular provinces along with 13 counties and 3 autonomous ...
Chiang Wan-an (Chinese: 蔣萬安; born Chang Wan-an; 26 December 1978), also known as Wayne Chiang, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who has served as the mayor of Taipei since December 2022. He is the youngest mayor of Taipei since the appointment of Chang Feng-hsu .
The mayor of Taipei is the head of the Taipei City Government and is elected to a four-year term. Until the election of Tsai Ing-wen , the office was seen as a stepping stone to the presidency : presidents Lee Teng-hui , Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou have all held this position prior to being elected president.
He is formerly the director-general of Taiwan’s National Police Agency and the current mayor of New Taipei City, the broader municipality that includes the main Taipei city area.
As the mayor of Tainan, Lai called himself a "pragmatic worker for Taiwanese independence" and argued it was possible to "love Taiwan while having an affinity to China". [ 77 ] [ 78 ] He has since moderated his position, saying that there was no need to declare independence as " Taiwan is already a sovereign, independent country called the ...
Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party picked the popular mayor of New Taipei City, Hou Yu-ih, on Wednesday as its candidate in next year's presidential election, seen as a referendum on the island ...
Chen Chi-mai was born in Keelung City, Taiwan, on December 23, 1964. [2] He is the son of Chen Che-nan, who is also a politician and was also a deputy secretary-general of the Presidential Office before Chen took office in 2007.
Chang San-cheng (Chinese: 張善政; pinyin: Zhāng Shànzhèng; born 24 June 1954), [1] also known by his English name Simon Chang, [2] is a Taiwanese politician who has been the mayor of Taoyuan City since 25 December 2022.