US EditionTaiwan lawmakers exchange blows in bitter dispute over parliament reforms
- Taiwanese lawmakers engaged in physical altercations in parliament over chamber reforms before President-elect Lai Ching-te assumes office without a legislative majority.
- Lawmakers screamed, shoved, and had scuffles both inside and outside the parliamentary chamber.
- Chaos ensued as lawmakers surged around the speaker's seat, leaped over tables, and pulled colleagues to the floor in the Taiwan parliament brawl.
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Gritos, empujones, pisoteadas, golpes. Una auténtica batalla campal en el Parlamento de Taiwán, en la que uno de sus diputados roba un proyecto de ley y sale corriendo con él para impedir que la Cámara le dé luz verde. Taipéi ha sido testigo de un inédito ntercambio de golpes entre las dos principales foramaciones del país, el Partido Democrático Progresista ( DPP ), el Kuomintang ( KMT ) y el Partido Popular de Taiwán ( TPP ), en mitad de una i…
An all-out brawl broke out in Taiwan's parliament when a controversial law proposed by a pro-Beijing party was being debated.
In the midst of the debate over an opposition initiative to give parliamentarians greater powers to control the Government, Kuomintang party member Kuo Kuo-wen snatched documents, creating a surreal scene that was already tense, with politicians brawling.
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