Wu was elected to the Taipei City Council three times, in 2006, 2010, and 2014.[4] For a portion of her time on the city council, Wu served as the DPP's caucus whip.[6] While on the council, she showed an interest in environmental and infrastructure issues.[7][8][9][10] In 2009, after a televised advertisement had been taken off the air due to a violation of the Satellite Radio and Television Act, Wu worked to remove a printed equivalent from the sides of Taipei buses.[11] She sought to reopen the Zhongshan Soccer Stadium for its intended use after the 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition, but did not succeed.[12][13]
During the 2016 legislative elections, Wu defeated Chen Hsi-yu in an interparty primary.[14] She was named the sole Pan-Green Coalition candidate for Taipei 1st district,[15][16] and won election to the legislature by joining an electoral coalition of seven others, including Freddy Lim and Pasuya Yao.[17] Wu defeated the district's incumbent representative, Ting Shou-chung, winning 95,000 votes.[18] As a legislator, she has focused her attention on academia and education in Taiwan. Wu is opposed to corporal punishment in schools,[19] and to education minister Wu Se-hwa's proposed senior high school curriculum changes, which were implemented despite a student protest.[20] She spoke out against a 2016 proposal to merge Tainan National University of the Arts and National Cheng Kung University, stating, "I am against amalgamation for the sake of amalgamation."[21] In March 2017, Wu said that Fu Jen Catholic University College of Social Sciences dean Hsia Lin-ching did not do enough to investigate allegations of sexual assault, and berated university administration for giving Hsia a light penalty.[22] Shortly after her comments, Fu Jen students went to the Legislative Yuan to meet Wu, who was not there.[23]
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