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Taiwanese Legislature Fight

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"Taiwan Legislature Dissolves Into Chaos"The Associated PressFriday, January 19, 2007; 9:20 AMTAIPEI, Taiwan -- A ruling party lawmaker threw a shoe at the speaker of Taiwan's legislature on Friday and assorted colleagues pushed and shoved each other, throwing the final day of the winter legislative session into chaos.The scenes were reminiscent of past Taiwanese legislative brawls, and represented another low point in the island's sometimes stormy transition from dictatorship to democracy.Friday's trouble erupted when dozens of lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party stormed the speaker's dais to prevent voting on a proposal to change the composition of the Central Election Commission.The commission is responsible for administering elections on the island of 23 million people and is generally considered nonpartisan.Opposition Nationalists responded to the DPP's move by rushing forward to protect speaker Wang Jin-pyng, one of the Nationalists' senior members.DPP lawmaker Wang Shu-huei flung a shoe at the speaker, but it struck the face of a lawmaker next to him.Another legislator threw the shoe back at Wang Shu-huei and ripped up a DPP political placard. Earlier, a DPP lawmaker grabbed a Nationalist by the jacket collar and tried to push him down against a desk, while dozens of legislators pushed and shoved in the background.Taiwan's Legislature has a reputation for violent incidents ever since the dismantling of martial law in 1987.Friday's brawls followed a motion by the opposition _ which holds a slim majority at the 219-seat Legislature _ asking for the Central Election Commission to be selected according to the parties' electoral strength.At present, members of the commission are nominated by the government and approved by the president.The opposition called the commission's impartiality into question amid months of legal wrangling following President Chen Shui-bian's narrow victory in the 2004 presidential election.© 2007 The Associated Press http://tinyurl.com/37lvms

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: awong20XX

Length: 01:11
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Tags: angry  Asia  Asian  brawl  China  DPP  Fight  KMT  Legislature  of  Parliament  Republic  ROC  Taipei  Taiwan  Taiwanese  

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loveranimegurl94 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ouch, this is a disgrace to me and other taiwanese people TT-TT;;
mah6786 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hey, at least they have no qualms about expressing disagreement. In communist china, they send you to a gulag to be "re-educated" if you disagree.
MarkSynthesis (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
While I too disagree with the DPP and their incompetence, I suspect many (not all, but many) Chinese nationals are just jealous their one-party Parliament isn't nearly this entertaining. :)Besides, it's one of the few times I've seen politicians actually look as though they give a damn about something.
taiwanrox8 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hilarious...I've loved watching this since I was a kid. Beats cartoons anyday.
chinesekid05 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Amen! It's too proper in the U.S.
Japanzor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
wow...
planettan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
hahahahahahahahaha!
againstmethod (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
As far as im concerned this is real democracy, not the pantomimed nonsense we see in other democratic countries.
VincentCheng93 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
as if the chinese wouldnt do the same thing... bull shit
Agramer11 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Something like that would never happen in a civ country...

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