Chen Chu
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.
| Chen Chu 陳菊 |
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| Assumed office December 25, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Yeh Chu-lan |
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| Born | June 10, 1950 (age 56) Yilan County |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party |
Chen Chu (陳菊) (born in June 10, 1950 in Yilan County) , a politician in Taiwan, served as Chairperson of the Council for Labor Affairs in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration between 2000 and 2005. She resigned in the wake of a scandal concerning Thai laborers brought into Taiwan to work on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system project.
Chen was one of the "Kaohsiung Eight," prominent dissidents arrested after the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979. She spent six years in jail.
Chen, who has a masters degree from National Sun Yat-sen University, held senior appointed posts in Taipei City Government and Kaohsiung City Government between 1995 and 2000.
Chen narrowly won the 2006 Kaohsiung Mayoral Elections over KMT candidate Huang Chun-ying, by a mere 1,200 votes.
In March 2007, she ordered the Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center in Kaohsuing to remove the second largest statue of late President Chiang Kai-shek[citation needed]. It was a controversial move. Within 12 hours after the order, the city government began dismantling the statue and it was later sent to Dashi in northern Taiwan supposedly in 8 parts, but the Kaohsuing workers hastily ruined it by cutting it up into 200 pieces. It is yet to be seen whether the statue can be put back together.
