Lu Ming-che

Lu Ming-che MLY
魯明哲
Member of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2020
Preceded by	Apollo Chen
Constituency	Taoyuan 3
Member of the Taoyuan City Council
In office 25 December 2014 – 31 January 2020
Constituency	Seventh precinct Zhongli District)
Mayor of Zhongli City
In office 1 March 2010 – 24 December 2014
Preceded by	Yeh Bu-liang
Succeeded by	Lin Hsiang-mei (as head of Zhongli District)
Member of the Taoyuan County Council
In office 1 March 2002 – 1 March 2010
Constituency	Zhongli City
Member of the Zhongli City Council
In office 1 March 1998 – 1 March 2002
Personal details
Born	(1963-12-04) 4 December 1963 Taipei, Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang (since 2008)
Other political affiliations	New Party (1998–2002) People First Party (2002–2008)
Alma mater	National Chengchi University Yuan Ze University
Occupation	Politician

Lu Ming-che (Chinese: 魯明哲; born 4 December 1963) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Lu attended Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, then studied business administration at National Chengchi University before pursuing a master's degree in the subject at Yuan Ze University.

Political career

Lu was elected to a single term on the Zhongli City Council, serving from 1998 to 2002. He was subsequently elected to the Taoyuan County Council for two full terms, serving until 2010. Later that year, Lu won the Zhongli mayoral election. He remained mayor until 2014, when Taoyuan County became a special municipality, and the city of Zhongli became a district of Taoyuan City. Lu then served on the Taoyuan City Council until 2020. In 2018, he sought the Kuomintang nomination as candidate for the mayoralty of Taoyuan. Following a party primary, the KMT selected Apollo Chen as its mayoral candidate. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan from Taoyuan City Constituency III in January 2020, succeeding Chen in office. During his first term as a member of the Legislative Yuan, Lu served on the transportation committee and took an interest in the review of CTi News performed by the National Communications Commission. Lu garnered some support for a Taoyuan mayoral bid prior to the 2022 Taiwanese local elections. However, the Kuomintang nominated Chang San-cheng in a closed-door meeting of its Central Standing Committee in May 2022.