Clara Chou
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Clara Chou is a TV and radio personality of the Republic of China
(Taiwan
).
She ran as a candidate for the Taiwan Solidarity Union
in the 2006 Taipei City municipal election
. She was expelled from her party during the campaign for suggesting that President Chen Shui-bian
resign in the wake of First Lady Wu Shu-chen
's indictment for graft, though her name still appeared on the ballot as the TSU candidate.
Republic of China
The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
(Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
).
She ran as a candidate for the Taiwan Solidarity Union
Taiwan Solidarity Union
The Taiwan Solidarity Union is a political party in the Republic of China which advocates Taiwan independence. It was officially founded on July 24, 2001 and is considered part of the Pan-Green Coalition. Unlike the Democratic Progressive Party, its larger companion party in the Pan-Green...
in the 2006 Taipei City municipal election
Republic of China municipal elections, 2006
The Republic of China municipal elections of 2006, or more commonly known as the Taipei and Kaohsiung elections of 2006 , was held on Saturday, December 9, 2006, to elect the municipal mayors and municipal councilmen of the two special-municipalities administered directly under the central...
. She was expelled from her party during the campaign for suggesting that President Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian is a former Taiwanese politician who was the 10th and 11th-term President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008. Chen, whose Democratic Progressive Party has traditionally been supportive of Taiwan independence, ended more than fifty years of Kuomintang rule in Taiwan...
resign in the wake of First Lady Wu Shu-chen
Wu Shu-chen
Wu Shu-chen or Wu Shu-jen , Taiwan, Republic of China) is the wife of former President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian. Wu is the first and only First Lady of Taiwan to have been charged and convicted of a crime; she was sentenced to a one-year prison term for perjury regarding political...
's indictment for graft, though her name still appeared on the ballot as the TSU candidate.