Lai Pin-yu

Lai Pin-yu (Chinese: 賴品妤; pinyin: Lài Pǐnyú; born 2 March 1992) is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party who was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2020. She is also a cosplayer.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lai.
Lai Pin-yu

MLY
賴品妤
Member of the Legislative Yuan
Assumed office
1 February 2020
Preceded byHuang Kuo-chang
ConstituencyNew Taipei XII
Personal details
Born (1992-03-02) 2 March 1992
Taipei County, Taiwan
NationalityRepublic of China
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
FatherLai Chin-lin
EducationBachelor's degree
Alma materNational Taipei University
ProfessionPolitician, cosplayer

Education and early activism

Lai was born on 2 March 1992[1] in Zhonghe, Taipei County, Taiwan. She is the daughter of the Democratic Progressive Party politician Lai Chin-lin and his wife Wu Ju-ping (吳如萍), a media worker.[2]

Lai obtained her bachelor's degree in law from National Taipei University in 2013.[3] After the appearance of the white shirt army movement and the anti-media monopoly movement in 2012 caused by the death of Hung Chung-chiu, Lai began to participate in many social movements in person.[4]

During Chen Deming's 26 November 2013 visit with Chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation Lin Join-sane, more than 20 students from the Black Island Youth Front, dissatisfied with Chen's pressure on the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, planned to hold a placard to protest near the foundation headquarters.[5] They immediately clashed with the police there; Lai was surrounded alongside two other female students by ten female police officers, and was dragged by the police all the way to the headquarters before letting go.[6] In an interview on the same day, she said that the effects of relative cheapness of Chinese labor and the easing of environmental laws will cause Taiwan's industry to stagnate the salary level of Taiwan's labor in comparison with mainland China.[7]

Since Lai Pin-yu is an anime fan herself and also likes selfies and cosplay, she received a lot of followers on Facebook.[8] In the demolition of the Huaguang community triggered by the Urban Planning Commission, Taipei City Government in December 2013, Lai Pin-yu decided to combine the issue of destruction with cosplay, and cosplay as Rei Ayanami, a character in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, in the hopes that the image work left by taking pictures of the architectural remains of the Huaguang community will attract more attention.[9] In January 2014, during the Taiwan high school curriculum fine-tuning controversy, she pointed out that in the new draft syllabus proposed by the Ministry of Education, only the 1943 Cairo Declaration is mentioned in the process of determining the status of international law, but it downplays the content of the Treaty of San Francisco and the Taiwan Relations Act enacted by the 96th United States Congress.[10]

Lai participated in Sunflower Student Movement in 2014 where she was arrested for blocking traffics with other protesters.[11]

Political career

Lai entered politics in September 2019 when she became a Democratic Progressive Party candidate for the Legislative Yuan in the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election.[12] As a cosplayer, Lai was seen dressed up as Asuka Langley Soryu from the Japanese Neon Genesis Evangelion anime franchise and Sailor Mars from the Sailor Moon franchise in her campaign advertisement.[13][14] On 11 January 2020, Lai won the election to become the member of Legislative Yuan representing New Taipei City Constituency XII.[3]

References
  1. Li Hongdian 李鴻典 (1 January 2020). "成功進軍國會 賴品妤貼超火辣照曬美腿：未來四年請多指教". SETN (in Chinese). Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  2. Ke Peichen 柯沛辰 (1 January 2020). "國會最年輕正妹！27歲賴品妤擊敗老將 汐止區關鍵372票決勝". ET Today (in Chinese). Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  3. Everington, Keoni (12 January 2020). "Taiwanese cosplay candidate, Sunflower Movement activist wins legislative seat". Taiwan News. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. "台灣抗議學生群體多為民進黨外圍分子" (in Chinese). 新浪. 2 March 2014. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  5. 艾然 (2 March 2014). "杨平："反服贸"学运是民进党操弄的结果" (in Chinese). 華廣網. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  6. 王立柔 (2 November 2013). "對陳德銘高喊反服貿 學生遭警察「鎖喉」" (in Chinese). 綠色和平電台. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  7. 張廷玉和陳金寶 (2 November 2013). "看見台灣 請陳德銘停止干涉台灣內政" (in Chinese). 《自立晚報》. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  8. 劉家綺和徐士庭 (2 March 2014). "服貿／抗議「嬌」點　甜美正妹是社運狂　剽悍抗警察沒在怕" (in Chinese). 三立新聞台. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  9. "【獨家】22歲女大生　為民主做悍妞" (in Chinese). 《蘋果日報》. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  10. "高中歷史爭議課綱 教部定案" (in Chinese). 《台灣立報》. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  11. Kuo, Lily (10 January 2020). "'We need more dreams': Taiwan's 'Squad' rallies youth ahead of election". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  12. Chi, Chang; Liu, Kuan-ting; Mazzetta, Matthew (12 January 2020). "2020 ELECTIONS / Young candidates, underdogs prevail in several legislative races". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  13. Everington, Keoni (10 January 2020). "Photo of the Day: Cat ears, cosplay, death metal featured in Taiwan campaign ad". Taiwan News. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  14. Long, Cody (27 December 2019). "Taiwanese Politician Campaigned as Evangelion's Asuka". Nicchiban. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
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