First Chinese marriage migrant lawmaker assumes office amid controversy｜Taiwan News

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The TPP on Tuesday inaugurated six new lawmakers-at-large for the Legislative Yuan. That’s because the party has a policy in which legislators elected through the party list serve only a two year term, after which they give up their spots for those next in line on the list. That means that the first batch of lawmakers, which included Party Chair Huang Kuo-chang is out, and another six are in. Among the new ones is Lee Zhen-hsiu, who has garnered some controversy due to her Chinese nationality. Lee is the first Chinese marriage migrant to ever become a lawmaker in Taiwan, due to a legal gap between cross-strait laws and the National Act. On Tuesday, she showed plane tickets to prove to the public that she had gone back to China to give up her Chinese nationality. But she says that local authorities would not accept her application. Let’s hear from her.

Lee Zhen-hsiu
Lawmaker (TPP)
I went back to my birthplace, Hengnan County, and I told the relevant authorities there that I wanted to apply to renounce my nationality. But they wouldn’t do it. As of the present day, there haven’t been any mainland Chinese spouses who have been able to actually give up their PRC nationality after obtaining a Taiwanese ID card. They provided a document written in simplified Chinese, which I will forward to the Ministry of the Interior, so that they can figure out how to renounce PRC nationality.

Chiu Chui-cheng
Mainland Affairs Council
Many countries’ constitutions do not allow citizens to renounce their nationality. That being the case, people from those countries would not be able to hold public office here in accordance with the Nationality Act. Our legislation is not directed solely at spouses from mainland China, it applies to every country equally.

The Mainland Affairs Council said that all foreign marriage migrants, no matter their origin, were considered one and the same when it comes to holding public office in Taiwan. Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior has requested Lee to provide proof that she applied to renounce her PRC nationality before she took office. Under the relevant provisions of the Nationality Act, she has one year to submit the relevant documents. If she fails to do so, she will be dismissed from her position.

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