Lee Chun-yee

Lee was born in Tainan County in 1959. He earned a bachelor's degree in public administration from National Chengchi University and then earned a master's degree in public administration from the university.^[1]

Lee represented Tainan County as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1996 to 2012.^[2] Affiliated with the Democratic Progressive Party's Welfare State Alliance,^[3] he has also served as the DPP caucus whip. In 2009, Lee was named the Democratic Progressive Party candidate for the Tainan County magistracy.^[4][5] The election was cancelled, as both Tainan City and Tainan County were consolidated into the special municipality of Tainan the next year.^[2] Subsequently, Lee declared his candidacy for the mayoralty of Tainan, and he was challenged by Yeh Yi-jin, Su Huan-chih, and Hsu Tain-tsair.^[6][7] A fifth Democratic Progressive Party candidate, William Lai, later received official party support and won the office. Lee lost to Wang Ting-yu in a contentious 2011 party primary and eventually yielded his legislative seat to Wang's replacement candidate Mark Chen.^[8][9] Su Tseng-chang named Lee one of three deputy secretaries-general of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2012.^[10] Lee resigned from the position in 2017 to prepare his second campaign for the Tainan mayoralty.^[2] He was one of six candidates vying for the DPP mayoral nomination won by Huang Wei-cher.^[11]

Lee was accused of accepting bribes in 2007, charges that originally stemmed from 1998.^[12] In 2010, the Taiwan High Court sentenced Lee to seven years and six months imprisonment.^[13] Two years later, he was cleared of corruption.^[14]