Magisterial Record

Wu Chun-li, who won the election for Taidong County [Taiwan] magistrate, will become the shortest-serving magistrate in Taiwan's history as he has been suspended for involvement in a corruption scandal.
Is this a record? Well, from reading the story it seems the hapless Wu wasn’t even sworn is, so he was only elected but never appointed. In fact it was more a dissapointment for him.
But Wu isn’t taking this lying down; he intends to appeal the decision to dump.
Wu was sentenced in a High Court trial to 7-1/2 years in prison for involvement in a corruption scandal during his tenure as county council speaker. In his first trial, at the district court, he was found guilty and given a 13-year sentence. He is appealing his corruption verdict, but new regulations stipulate that people who are convicted of corruption and run for elected official posts should be barred from taking office after they win.
Wu can only return to his post if and when a higher court acquits him. It is unclear when that court will hand down a verdict. Wu criticized the central government's decision to suspend him from his post as improper since the existing laws on the matter are, he said, vague and controversial, as they do not stipulate what should be done if a person is still in the process of appealing.
The only part of Wu’s story I find appealing is the potential ‘world record’. For the rest we are seeing too many officials, convicted of corruption, then using legalisms and loopholes to try and wriggle out of it.
There is rarely a clear innocence involved, or even an assertion of innocence. Rather some sort of manipulation to twist the law, or ethical considerations, to fit shady dealings.
This idea of electing the judiciary is always an odd one to me. Wu was ousted in good time, but the idea of electing a fox to run the chicken coop is a little iffy.