Yen won’t be going to jail for the first time, having been locked up in 2008 for illegal possession of firearms. Here’s a more in-depth look at this man who has been arrested as an organized crime figure, elected repeatedly to public office, and emerged as the popular leader of one of Taiwan’s most famous Mazu temples.
This is a rare glimpse of Yen Chin-piao relaxing during his 2012 re-election campaign. He is more often thought of as a behind-the-scenes power broker at the Legislature.
In 2007 during a review of a bill, when DPP lawmakers surrounded the speaker’s podium and threw their shoes around in anger, Yen protected Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng and harshly criticized the DPP’s actions.
But he has also made mistakes. In a vote of no-confidence against the Cabinet earlier this year, he voted for the measure by mistake, causing an uproar that forced him to apologize to the head of the Cabinet, Premier Sean Chen.
Born in 1960, Yen quickly emerged as an organized crime leader in Taichung. In 1987, he was arrested as part of an anti-crime campaign and sent to Green Island to be reformed. He entered politics after being released and won election as a ward chief in 1990, then became a Taichung County councilman, and eventually council speaker before getting elected as a legislator in 2001. He has been a lawmaker since then and has never lost an election.
Yen also heads one of Taiwan’s most important Mazu temples, the Jenn Lann temple in Dajia. Political leaders of all colors show up every year for the annual Mazu procession.
In 2006, when Yen’s son got married, the banquet had 2008 tables and top leaders in the pan-blue camp, including Ma Ying-jeou, showed up, a sign of Yen’s political pull.
Tsai Chi-chang
DPP Legislator
He is generous to people but he is also politically astute and is really good at political etiquette.
In 2008, Yen went to jail on an illegal weapons charge during his time as Taichung County speaker but did less than a year’s time. He returned to the Legislature after getting parole, but his conviction this time on corruption charges means he will never be allowed to return to the lawmaking body again.
這不是立委顏清標第一次入獄，2008年，就因為非法持有槍械入獄，台中出身的顏清標，早年在一清專案中，被送到綠島管訓，後來踏入政壇，一路從里長選到立委，從未嘗過敗績，成為地方黑派的領袖，跟藍綠政壇都有好交情，不過也因為海派又草莽的個性，惹出不少爭議。
這是去年為了爭取連任立委時，顏清標難得顯露出的輕鬆一面，其餘時間，他在立法院可是有名的大哥級人物。
2007年，立法院審查法案，民進黨立委包圍主席台，鞋子看板亂飛，顏清標一夫當關，保護立法院長王金平，怒嗆綠營立委。
不過他也有凸槌的時候，今年民進黨在立法院發起倒閣案，他不小心投錯票引發軒然大波，逼的他親自向院長陳?道歉。
[[立委 顏清標]]
“抱歉，抱歉，抱歉，投錯票，給你添麻煩了”
1960年出生的顏清標，是台中黑派領袖，1987年一清專案中，被送到綠島管訓，
1990年當選里長，從此踏入政壇，一路從省議員，議長，到第五屆立委，只要參選就當選，後來更連任第六屆到第八屆立委，同時也是大甲鎮瀾宮的董事長。每年鎮瀾宮大駕媽祖出巡，朝野政壇的領袖，沒人缺席。
2006年，顏清標娶媳婦，不但席開2008桌，連宋王馬都是坐上佳賓，顯示出驚人的政商人脈。
[[立委(民) 蔡其昌]]
“一個為人海派，但是政治思考細膩，禮數非常的周到”
藍綠通吃的顏清標，2008年因為擔任台中縣議長期間，非法持有槍械入獄，不過服刑不到一年，顏清標獲得假釋出獄，再回到立法院，不過這次涉及的是貪污案，顏清標已再無回到立院的可能。
文章出處 ：民視英語新聞
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