1. Chou Chun-mi is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who is currently Magistrate of Pingtung County, serving since 2022.
13 Facts About Chou Chun-mi
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Chou Chun-mi obtained her bachelor's degree in law from National Taiwan University.
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Chou Chun-mi was a judge for seven years in the Pingtung and Kaohsiung district courts, and a lawyer for fifteen.
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Chou Chun-mi represented families of people drowned in the Shuangyuan Bridge collapse caused by Typhoon Morakot in 2009.
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Chou Chun-mi won election to the Legislative Yuan via the Democratic Progressive Party proportional representation party list in 2016 and 2020.
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Chou Chun-mi participated in legislative questioning regarding topics related to Taiwanese indigenous people and the foreign relations of Taiwan during her first year in office.
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Chou Chun-mi retained the post in another election held in February 2019.
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In January 2022, Chou Chun-mi was elected to head the Constitutional Amendment Committee, a decision protested by Kuomintang legislators, who did not arrive in time to participate in the leadership vote.
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Chou Chun-mi called attention to Kuomintang boycotts of bills seeking to lower the voting age to eighteen.
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In 2018, Chou Chun-mi co-sponsored a national defense bill requiring government contractors to use a portion of governmental funds on defense-related research and development.
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Later that year, Chou Chun-mi moved for the Legal Aid Foundation to investigate and report on reasons that a majority of indigenous people unable to pay legal fees were refusing the foundation's legal aid.
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Chou Chun-mi won the DPP nomination for the Pingtung County magistracy in polls featuring Chuang Jui-hsiung and Chung Chia-pin facing off against Su Ching-chuan.
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Chou Chun-mi was elected to office after winning the 2022 Pingtung County magistrate election held on 26 November 2022.