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"Taiwan Legislature Dissolves Into Chaos" The Associated Press Friday, January 19, 2007; 9:20 AM TAIPEI, 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

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Agramer11 (Thursday 4th of September 2008 11:04:31 AM)
Something like that would never happen in a civ country...
HeelHook123 (Thursday 28th of August 2008 11:36:29 PM)
Hahaha, stupid taiwanese trash! LOL!
mynameiswhatever (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 01:19:32 AM)
You Chicom jerk. Stop dogging the Taiwanese. They have the sort of freedom there that your creepy repressive regime won't allow.
BlackMombomba (Sunday 17th of August 2008 08:22:18 PM)
this is the only thing that makes me proud to be Taiwanese ....ohh and the girls ofcourse...that too
mynameiswhatever (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 01:20:09 AM)
Right on! Long live democracy! I wish we had this in the USA!
0n0a0m0e (Sunday 10th of August 2008 02:25:58 PM)
dude i wish british parliment was like this some one needs to slam that cunt gordon brown lol
HammandClov (Saturday 2nd of August 2008 08:21:31 PM)
Man, if that happened, C-SPAN would be popular as hell. Be the white collar ufc.
mynameiswhatever (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 01:24:23 AM)
Right on! I agree. This would be awesome. I would love to see Nancy Pelosi bitch slapping Condi Rice at a Congressional Hearing.
HammandClov (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 07:38:49 AM)
Or Hilary coming and beating everybody up with her robotic Transformer-like body. She really seems to display no emotions and when she does display them, they seems force.
fatpiglazy (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 05:13:43 PM)
democracy IS JUST SHIT!!!