Political Career
Following his victory in the 1975 supplementary legislative election for the Kaohsiung County constituency, Wang took his seat in the Legislative Yuan on February 1, 1976 . He has since been reelected eight times. From 1976 until 1990, he was a member of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Yuan. In 1990, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Central Policy Committee of the KMT and Chairman of the Central Policy Committee's Finance Commission.
Wang became the KMT's first Director-General of the Committee on Coordination between Party and Government and the KMT Caucus Convenor in the Legislative Yuan in 1992 following the retirement of the original Legislative Yuan members in December 1991. He was Vice President of the 2nd and 3rd Legislative Yuans from 1993 to 1999.
In 2003 Wang was elected as the chairman of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, which was a democracy developing project set up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the ROC.
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