Education
National Taiwan University.
涂醒哲
National Taiwan University.
He has been the Minister of Department of Health from 31 December 2002 to 18 May 2003. He has been the Legislator of Taiwan from 2008 to 2012. He is currently the since 25 December 2014.
Twu obtained his bachelor"s degree in medicine and master"s degree in public health from National Taiwan University.
He then obtained his doctoral degree from University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. 2009 Chiayi City mayor election
Lin joined the 2009 Republic of China local elections for Chiayi City mayor position held on 5 December 2009.
2014 Chiayi City mayor election
He ran his campaign under the slogan Bold leadership, Chuluo, heading up for Taiwan (Chinese: 氣魄 諸羅 台灣頭), in which Chuluo is the original Taiwanese name of Chiayi. Lin was elected as the after winning the 2014 Chiayi City mayoralty election held on 29 November 2014.
He eventually lost to Kuomintang candidate Huang Ming-hui. During the campaign period of 2014 Republic of China local elections in September 2014, Lin asked the voters to choose the best person, not the wealthiest, referring to politicians from Kuomintang which were mostly backed by their huge assets and government resources to work with business conglomerates run by wealthy families to control local political factions and influence election outcomes.