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| Nationality | Taiwanese | |||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1976 | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||
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Lai Hsiu-wen (born 21 September 1976) is a Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner. She won a bronze medal in featherweight at the 1997 World Taekwondo Championships in Hong Kong, after being defeated by Jung Jae-eun in the semi-final. She also competed at the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships. [1]
Annette Lu Hsiu-lien is a Taiwanese politician. A feminist active in the tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 1990, and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was the Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008, under President Chen Shui-bian. Lu announced her intentions to run for the presidency on 6 March 2007, but withdrew to support eventual DPP nominee Frank Hsieh. Lu ran again in 2012, but withdrew for a second time, ceding the nomination to DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen. She lost the party's Taipei mayoral nomination to Pasuya Yao in 2018, and stated that she would leave the party. However, by the time Lu announced in September 2019 that she would contest the 2020 presidential election on behalf of the Formosa Alliance, she was still a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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