The News Lens interviewed Chen Jiau-hua, the first legislative candidate on New Power Party's party list. Chen is a longtime environmental activist who wishes to enter the legislature and push for real changes.

The News Lens
Date: 2020/01/02
By: Abby Huang, News editor at The News LensPhoto Credit: CNA
Translated by: Lin Ying-jen

Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華), the party list candidate for New Power Party, is a longtime environmental activist. In the past two decades, Chen participated in nearly all of the significant domestic environmental protection movements.

She is the convenor of the Anti-Air Pollution Union of Southern Taiwan. She closely followed issues like the No. 6 Naphtha Cracker Complex petrochemical pollution, the Matoushan landfill site, and the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation. She was even once beaten up and wounded by black-clad individuals while she was speaking against the Yunyang landfill site. 

Some call her the “Iron Lady of Environmental Protection,” while others refer to her as an “environmental extremist.” What would a veteran environmentalist and a political amateur like Chen bring for Taiwanese people if she’s elected?    [FULL  STORY]