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About Charles Chiang
- Charles Chiang (Chinese: ???; born 2 August 1943) is a Taiwanese banker and politician. Prior to his first legislative campaign in 2001, Chiang worked as a supervisor at First Commercial Bank.
- Bank chairman Jerome Chen was indicted in March 2001 of breach of trust, as Chen was found to have used bank resources in support of Chiang's campaign.
- Due to the controversy, Chiang resigned his role as a government advisor.
- On 23 September 2001, Chiang claimed to receive a faxed confession signed by Chang Chao-chuan, admitting to electoral fraud during the 2000 presidential election.
- After sending the evidence to the Ministry of Justice, Chiang filed suit against the Kuomintang in October.In his first term as legislator, Chiang joined an "anti-betrayal alliance," which later became the Alliance Against Selling Out Taiwan.
- He was supportive of reductions to salaries of government workers.
- In 2003, Chiang asked the Judicial Yuan to offer an interpretation of a legislative resolution barring an increase on National Health Insurance premiums, which he believed to be non-binding.
- Later that year, Chiang and fellow legislator Lee Chen-nan accused Taipei Veterans General Hospital superintendent Chang Mau-song of corruption, leading to Chang's resignation.
- After the Referendum Act was promulgated, Lin Chin-hsing, Chai Trong-rong, and Chiang proposed in June 2004 that a referendum be held to decide the location of the capital.
- Such a referendum has yet to be held. Chiang won reelection in December 2004.
- In his second term, he was named the leader of a group that acted as a liaison between the Legislative Yuan and US Congress.
- Chiang became critical of the government's financial supervisory agencies, especially the Financial Supervisory Commission.
- After Lee Chin-chen resigned due to allegations of insider trading, Chiang called for commission chairman Kong Jaw-sheng to step down also.
- After the FSC was unable to stop a bank run on Rebar Chinese Bank, Chiang berated Premier Su Tseng-chang over the scandal.
- In 2005, he proposed a bill in response to China's Anti-Secession Law.
- He was detained later that year while in Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, because he was there to protest Lien Chan's attendance of the Pan–Blue visits to mainland China.Chiang lost a May 2007 party primary to Wei Ming-ku, and during the election, filed defamation lawsuits against Wei and Hsiao Bi-khim.
- He was named a Democratic Progressive Party candidate for a third time, but lost reelection in January 2008 to Kuomintang candidate Hsiao Ching-tien.
- Following the loss, Chiang was elected in May as DPP chapter director for Changhua County.
- He launched a legislative campaign in 2011, but did not win.
- Chiang was one of five potential candidates representing the Democratic Progressive Party in 2013 for the magistracy of Changhua County, a post that was won by Wei Ming-ku.
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