Lai Pin-yu (Chinese: 賴品妤; pinyin: Lài Pǐnyú; born 2 March 1992) is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer of the Democratic Progressive Party who was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2020.
She is the daughter of the Democratic Progressive Party politician Lai Chin-lin and his wife Wu Ju-ping (吳如萍), a media worker.
[8] In the demolition of the Huaguang community [zh] triggered by the Urban Planning Commission, Taipei City Government [zh] in December 2013, Lai Pin-yu decided to combine the issue of destruction with cosplay, and cosplay as Rei Ayanami, a character in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, in the hopes that the image work left by taking pictures of the architectural remains of the Huaguang community will attract more attention.
[9] In January 2014, during the Taiwan high school curriculum fine-tuning controversy [zh], she pointed out that in the new draft syllabus proposed by the Ministry of Education, only the 1943 Cairo Declaration is mentioned in the process of determining the status of international law, but it downplays the content of the Treaty of San Francisco and the Taiwan Relations Act enacted by the 96th United States Congress.
[13][14] On 11 January 2020, Lai won the election to become the member of Legislative Yuan representing New Taipei City Constituency XII.