Taiwan lawmakers clash after one party breaks into legislature to occupy speaker's chair

Manila Bulletin

Lawmakers clashed in Taiwan's legislature Friday when members of the president's political party who had broken into the building overnight to occupy the speaker's chair tussled with members of another major party who forced their way in to evict them. (Courtesy of EBC via Associated Press)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/12/21/taiwan-lawmakers-clash-after-one-party-breaks-into-legislature-to-occupy-speaker-s-chair  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00At 9.09 am, the KMT legislators shouted back to the house.

00:06The KMT legislators came in.

00:09We have to leave the scene as soon as possible.

00:11If we are caught, we will blame the KMT.

00:13The seats were piled up like a mountain.

00:15The KMT legislators blocked the door with their seats.

00:17At 9.15 am, most of the KMT legislators came in.

00:20But the national war has officially begun.

00:30The KMT legislators pushed the KMT leaders to the main stage.

00:33Chen Yu-cheng, who was in charge of the KMT, was pushed to the main stage.

00:39At 10.38 am, the KMT legislators came back to the main stage.

00:42The KMT legislators asked the legislators to fix their microphones.

00:45The KMT legislators asked the president to have a meeting.

00:48The KMT legislators were in a mess.

00:51The KMT legislators raised the minimum threshold for voting.

00:54The KMT legislators redistributed the money.

00:57The KMT legislators treated the protest as the sunflower 2.0,

01:00and stood on the street with birds.

01:02But when the background was different, the KMT leaders were in a mess.

01:05The people's will was destroyed.

01:07The next bad thing was the people's taxpayer money.

01:12News journalist from China replied.

01:19They became big legislators.

01:21The KMT is repairing the public opinion.

01:24The Nationalist Party's law does not give the content of the law the right to negotiate in the grassroots.

01:29That's how the system works.

01:32And now we're going to have a re-election.

01:45The Nationalist Party and the Democratic People's Party want to pass all three sections of Article 2.

01:50The three sections are the Electoral Act, the Tax Law, and the Constitutional Law.

01:54If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

01:58For example, in the Tax Law, there is a fee for private college students.

02:04It will take it all away.

02:11The first is to raise the threshold for the people to vote.

02:14The second is that they want to corrupt the Constitutional Law.

02:17The third is that they want to dig up the central government's finances.

02:22They want to pass the Electoral Act.

02:25All three of these will cause a lot of harm to Taiwan.

02:29Today, the people don't want this to happen.

02:33That's why we're here today.

02:47The Nationalist Party and the Democratic People's Party want to pass all three sections of Article 2.

02:52The Electoral Act, the Tax Law, and the Constitutional Law.

02:55If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

02:58If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

03:01If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

03:04If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

03:07If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

03:10If passed, it will have a great impact on the people's lives.

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