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Pasuya Yao
| Pasuya YaoYao Wen-chihMLY |
|---|
| .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}姚文智 |
| Official portrait, 2014 |
| In office1 February 2012 – 18 November 2018 |
| Justin Chou |
| Ho Chih-wei |
| Taipei II |
| In office13 March 2005 – 25 January 2006 |
| Frank Hsieh |
| Lin Chia-lung |
| Cheng Wen-tsan |
| (1965-12-04) 4 December 1965Tianmu, Shilin District, Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Democratic Progressive Party |
| Fu Jen Catholic University (BA) |
Yao Wen-chih (Chinese: 姚文智; pinyin: Yáo Wénzhì; Wade–Giles: Yao Wen-chih; born 4 December 1965), also known by the appropriated Tsou name Pasuya Yao, is a Taiwanese film maker and former politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2012 to 2018.
Yao, a former journalist, was named the minister of the Government Information Office in March 2005. By 2006, he had stepped down.
Yao ran for the mayoralty of Taipei City in the 2014 local elections. He won the first round of a party primary held in May, but lost to independent candidate Ko Wen-je in an opinion poll held the next month. The Democratic Progressive Party chose to back Ko's independent bid for the office, and he defeated Kuomintang candidate Sean Lien.
On 16 January 2016, Yao won the legislative election for Taipei City 2nd constituency representing Shilin District and Datong District.
| 2016 Republic of China Legislative Election Result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wang Ming-tzong (王銘宗) | Independent | 1,342 | 0.74% | |
| 2 | Chen Min-chien (陳民乾) | Taiwan Independence Party | 865 | 0.48% | |
| 3 | Wu Chun-te (吳俊德) | Faith and Hope League | 3,550 | 1.96% | |
| 4 | Lin Xing-rong (林幸蓉) | National Health Service Alliance | 1,561 | 0.86% | |
| 5 | Wynn Pan (潘懷宗) | New Party | 65,967 | 36.43% | |
| 6 | Pasuya Yao | DPP | 107,366 | 59.29% | |
| 7 | Chen Jian-bin (陳建斌) | Free Taiwan Party | 433 | 0.24% |
Yao announced that he would contest the Taipei mayoralty for the second time in July 2017. He resigned from the legislature in November 2018 to focus on his mayoral campaign.
2018 Taipei City mayoral election result map
| 2018 Taipei City mayoral results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wu Er-yang (吳蕚洋) | Independent | 5,617 | 0.40% | |
| 2 | Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) | Kuomintang | 577,566 | 40.82% | |
| 3 | Pasuya Yao | Democratic Progressive Party | 244,641 | 17.29% | |
| 4 | Ko Wen-je | Independent | 580,820 | 41.05% | |
| 5 | Lee Si-kuen (李錫錕) | Independent | 6,172 | 0.44% | |
| Total voters | 2,164,155 | ||||
| Valid votes | 1,414,816 | ||||
| Invalid votes | |||||
| Voter turnout | 65.37% |
Yao retired from politics after finishing third behind Ko Wen-je and Ting Shou-chung, stating that he would begin working on documentaries about activists Peng Ming-min and Cheng Nan-jung. Yao's film production company released the crowdfunded film Untold Herstory in 2022, on which Yao was credited as producer.
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