Violence breaks out in chaotic Taiwanese parliament

Taiwan’s parliament descended into a brawl on Friday just days before the inauguration of Lai Ching-te, the new president.
Politicians pushed, hit and tackled each other, clambering across tables as they swarmed around the speaker’s seat in the legislative chamber after tempers became heated in a bitter dispute about parliamentary reforms.
The argument broke out over a push by the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), and its allies, to give parliament greater powers of scrutiny over the government.
This includes a controversial move to criminalise officials who are deemed to make false statements in parliament - a proposal which has been rejected by Mr Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as “an unconstitutional abuse of power”.
The unruly scenes are likely to add to speculation that Mr Lai will face a tougher challenge than President Tsai Ing-wen, his predecessor, in gaining support for his legislative policies after he takes office.
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[@hamzamahmood9565]

The dude that ran out the door like he was carrying some classified documents 😂😂😂

[@brunoccj]

He is doing that against a 70-year-old secretary.

[@jeff830103]

I'm taiwanese. He was! And he stolen doc from 73years old secretary 😡

[@hamzamahmood9565]

​@@jeff830103 goddamn 😂

[@Paper.Power.Politics]

💀

[@li_xing_183]

@@jeff830103it’s “robbing” not “stealing”.

[@gingerfish20]

My man who ran away with documents had his internet history written on it

[@jaguarotacoa7538]

😭😭

[@Flamont]

If my country were like this, I would never stop watching the sessions on the congress channel.

[@rwejiq]

KMT and TPP parties hold the majority in parliament. They always collaborate to propose bills that are favor a certain foreign power(China) and not based on the interests of the Taiwanese people. The content of yesterday's bills has not been made public, and there has been no discussion; KMT and TPP were trying to force the bills through.This is not democracy. They caused a conflict because DPP were trying to block the passage of the unreasonable bill. As Taiwanese, we want to safeguard the hard-earned democracy. We do not want anyone to betray democracy and collude with foreign political forces（China) to undermine the values of democratic governance.

[@sutheman86]

We have tons of memes about our congress in Taiwan.

[@user-jk6ed9ux1t]

Which country?

[@jeff830103]

@@rwejiq Bullshit!!! Im Taiwanese.I am trying to help everyone understand why they are so violence Because our ruling party (DPP) officials frequently lie during legislative inquiries, and there is no way to stop them from lying. Two opposition party ,KMT and TPP, through legal procedures, are working together to pass legislation that stipulates if an official lies in the legislature, they will face administrative penalties. Since the ruling party (DPP) can no longer lie, they resort to using violence, snatching, and shoving to prevent the legislation from passing!!

[@yuejiang4601]

@@rwejiq 台湾人：我们是自愿吃莱猪的

[@stephen-gi9uz]

Not the best way to advertize democracy.😅 especially to your ahemm .. neighbors

[@lambchop6278]

Maybe it's the Chinese influence or infiltration that possibly contributes to all this hostility?

[@user-lz9ul4fd6q]

@@lambchop6278of course, it’s always CHINA. CHINA, just blame CHINA

[@maggiechan33]

@@lambchop6278 NO, many of them were gangsters.

[@bigtone231]

Did someone say DEMOCRACY! SWEET LIBERTY!

[@Homer1e2]

​@@lambchop6278Just democracy at work buddy.

[@solider191]

This is madness! This is politics.

[@TheDepressedPigeonGoWithWind]

i got used to (im native taiwan)

[@timothygz]

Taiwan Normal Day

[@TheFailingHumanExperieme-ge4ov]

Democracy 2.0 😂

[@samblogz]

@@TheFailingHumanExperieme-ge4ov More like Double Standards 3.0

[@farrahkong1998]

0:39 He afterwards claimed: 'I grabbed documents and never pushed or attacked the Secretary-General Zhou Wanlai, and I respect the elders very much.' Shamless without boundaries.

[@brunoccj]

The Secretary-General is 70 years old.

[@wunclerlaufenbumcorneliusu7047]

Shame? This is politics. What shame?

[@Ranchmountain]

This is your politics😂 We’ve seen much more civilized parliaments. What a chaos, what’s the point of having law? None of these politicians respects it. Monkey show 🙈

[@truefreecmdoggg]

😂😂

[@shemuelgallardovivarsjourn8814]

These individuals are supposed to be educated and much more formal and respectful BUT based on what they showed...

[@michaelyuan3382]

My understanding is that many of them have gangster backgrounds. Hardly surprising this is how they behave. Not everybody can be as graceful as The Godfather.

[@Ranchmountain]

Taiwan😂

[@brenketsu]

Media is great at painting appearances. It doesn't matter which country your in. Any of them would sell their own mother down a river. That's politics.

[@maggiechan33]

This is exactly why they need China.

[@proceedproceed7494]

​@@maggiechan33Ironic since this happened because of china

[@vonderfaak6357]

So I've seen about 5 clips like this over the years, what happens afterwards? Are people arrested? There's never a follow up.

[@Tmb1112]

Who would arrest them? They’re the government

[@user-qb5cv3on1w]

all of these action are politics show. no punish, no ending

[@user-lg1bd7mi9g]

They are elected lawmakers, imagine democrat and republican representatives fighting in the house

[@yanjiang945]

这些人都是国会议员，享有司法豁免权。

[@neillu]

there is judicial immunity

[@HKim0072]

0:20 dude tackled a female. Pretty lame.

[@Whitehalo732]

Equal rights, equal lefts

[@siewheilou399]

Last century it was strictly woman vs woman, man vs man.

[@ShinnZaw]

It’s okay, Asian females ain’t pu**y

[@TeamTaiwan-mv3tb]

He apologized to her afterward, and got injured

[@trashboity8773]

trying to make a statement

[@skymore2948]

NEVER trust the comments sections below. that's the parliament's Taiwanese EVERY meeting happened like that. EVERY meeting. to me that's BETTER rather than being hypocrite say YES in under deal desk' money agreement. #wkwkwkwk

[@rf2032]

The bill is to give parliament (controlled by opposition) more investigative powers, so it’s opposed by ruling party. I’m sure there’s always some corruption going on too, but they also engage in hand to hand combat.

[@wunclerlaufenbumcorneliusu7047]

I agree. And it’s good to know people still have a backbone.

[@nickasiodery101]

Money involve as always UNDER THE TABLE SCHEME

[@u-tone1997]

Not every time they fought like that, but surely it's almost a tradition for different parties to fight in Taiwanese parliament.

[@unknown81000]

And that's why Taiwan is a country

[@ethanloming001]

Truly a Taiwanese Parliament Filibuster lol😂😂😂

[@HJ31mike]

Is this Football game?

[@ccza12786]

Yes

[@yian9226]

Rugby game. What a tackle

[@DanielLai-zk7bz]

Don’t like the KMT either but over the last eight years, the Democratic DPP has committed numerous disgraceful acts, and they've tried everything to prevent the bill from being passed. Those who have closely followed recent party negotiations know that DPP legislators never seriously read the provisions but merely delayed proceedings with the aim of obstructing the bill's passage. They even proposed 80 different versions of the bill, with each version differing only in punctuation and a few words. Despite their majority in Congress, the DPP failed to deliver on the reforms promised over the past eight years. It's clear that there's no bill that can't be passed, only those that the DPP doesn't want to pass. Holding all the power, they have allowed Taiwan's wealth gap to reach 66 times while deceiving the international community with claims that only the DPP can protect Taiwan's sovereignty, resulting in severe hardship for the people of Taiwan.

[@Cjdjdbsiofo192]

Not 80 different versions of bill. It's the same version but proposed 80 times lol.

[@AIR-sy2vz]

Some Chinese Communist Party legislators are sponsoring black-box legislation within Taiwan's Legislative Yuan. They force the bill to be filed without content and discussion. This is unacceptable to the people. On May 24, 100,000 people took to the streets to protest against the black-box legislation, which has no content and no discussion. , forced voting, shameful opposition party!

[@martingrimsted5017]

I thought it was the tories lol

[@user-bi8ko7kc6h]

I don’t think they would bother to fight lol.

[@user-oz9wn1if7t]

The fight began with procedural justice concerns. The opposition parties united and passed a law involving congressional reforms, including the criminalization of false statements and the enforcement of presidential hearings. The law was approved without scrutiny of each clause, and its contents were kept confidential until the vote was held in Congress. There were no public hearings or suggestions from the ruling party. Legislators from the ruling party were very upset and fought back. It's difficult to judge who is more right because, while I believe this law is good, I understand the opposition parties felt they needed to vote first to prevent the ruling party from delaying it. However, I also believe procedural justice is a crucial mechanism to prevent arbitrariness.

[@jeff830103]

BULLSHIT Two opposition party, KMT and TPP, through ""legal procedures""are working together to pass legislation that stipulates if an official lies in the legislature, they will face administrative penalties. There were three public hearings and party negotiations where each clause was discussed, fully complying with the procedural rules of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan. Supporters of the ruling party should stop lying.

[@flyingdragon6275]

insanity

[@DarrenCLin]

Shame on #KMT#中國國民黨#大陸國民黨, those losers almost ruined this great country...

[@jeff830103]

Shame on #DPP (democratic regression party), that always lies.

[@happymelon7129]

😂 The ruling DPP oppose a bill that prevent MPs making false statements without consequences. It is really sad for the Taiwan people to have such a government.

[@Redmi-xu1yo]

where is the place

[@sicariussss]

Some one else shouted to the screen "Yeah run, runnn!!!" ?

[@ashutoshjadhav7224]

that guy in formals, is carrying documents like he is playing rugby

[@coconuciferanuts339]

At least this shows commitment to what they believe .

[@ysngngys7753]

That's how the few countries at war currently should settle their issues and not involve the innocents...

[@mirrorocean3852]

Shameful

[@SamRichardson1990]

This is how International Countries should Settle problems.

[@xiaoshuchu4095]

Chinese people watched this and thought democracy is so barbaric...

[@markh3376]

Stop fighting for no reason!!

[@LickyTee]

I don’t know whose idea it was to first form a parliament but they should’ve just named it a zoo.

[@areyousureaboutthat3457]

At least they all bite no bark

[@muzkat101]

As bad as it is in the U.S., I'm still amazed that our politicians haven't gotten to this level of fighting... which makes me believe none of our elected officials and politicians are as passionate about our issues as we are. Which, by the way, also makes me believe that they are all in on the Political Game, playing us all for fools while they all cover their own backs.

[@user-dv2dk8ud8y]

台湾就这样😂

[@jkw6196]

That’s why there are so many 8+9 in Taiwan. 8+9 society

[@user-zl7cn4xf1r]

Can people not lived in Taiwna know what 8＋９ means? hahaha

[@waichenchen3055]

i'm vary shame of my country these day.

[@Vhhg-wn3nd]

為什麼

[@michaelyuan3382]

Gangsters behaving like gangsters. None of them should have been elected in the first place.

[@jagosingh85]

Yaawnnn… this is normal for this lot.

[@primoyz5608]

How incredibly cultured

[@user-qp4ou4nd7r]

Former Singapore PM LKY ever said : “I have never believed that democracy brings progress. I know it to have brought regression.”

[@alanc457]

He’s right. Western style democracy is unsuitable for Asians. We can’t BS as well as them.

[@lewisbush9566]

Put some benny hill music behind it

[@lambchop6278]

They should just have a weekly rugby match and run the country based on who wins, lol 😂😂 The dude at the end would have scored a touchdown in American football 🏈 😂😅

[@eklim2034]

ORDAA!! ORDAA!! ORDAA!! ORDAA!! ORDAA!!

[@james_l4337]

This is how primordial chaos will be chaotic, non stop nonsense all sorts of extreme exercises added torture, self pity, ignorance of everything else

[@lohti6399]

This kind of government will have no corruption. I have confident in this country.

[@ahsin314]

In fact, it's very corruption in this country.

[@changbeiwu73]

… then your confidence is worthless

[@souvikrc4499]

@@ahsin314 it’s a lot better than a lot of other countries in the reason

[@samblogz]

Billions of tax payers money goes to Democratic Progressive Party members' own pockets per year, while fines Taiwanese $92,923.02 USD per person for receiving COVID vaccines, and made adultery legal, tell me if that's no corruption what is.

[@user-specdsds1555]

​@@souvikrc4499 No they aren't. Taiwan is quite rich country but their citizens' average income is so so low cuz some big companies have a secret relationship with corrupted politicians. Our Gdp per capita is above South Korea's but our income is 1/2 of theirs.

[@jianghuwang]

Overly ambitious moves for a puppet show with predetermined outcomes

[@GuardianAngel333]

Waiting for Benny Hill to show up 🥺

[@geoffsullivan4063]

It's all getting a bit Bruce Lee over there innit ! {{ WHAH ! }}

[@susanwestern6434]

Looks a bit like what happened in the Georgian Parliament recently.

[@gadgetgus]

Divide and rule, in motion... 💃🕺 Q. When were these seeds of discontent sown, and by whom - question is who benefits? ⬇️ *It reminds me of my playground days... 😁

[@user-ok4bs7dd4g]

Democracy

[@mantisclarke9109]

Anybody remember that scene in Cat in the Hat?

[@somethingtobelievein]

We humans can never learned anything.

[@TrailBlazerSS502]

I guess the whole thing was “made in Taiwan”.

[@bengelpangson6944]

There's reason why Singapore is so successful among the Asian Four Tigers

[@patrick_lee]

羡慕台湾人民有这么民主的议会和高素质的议员

[@michaelturner4457]

ORDER!!! ORDER!!! ORDER!!!

[@LisbonLion7]

00:20: Bro's wife be like 🤨

[@robertchew73]

So when ate thevtaieanese starting fighting in the streets. Government showing very good example.

[@arnoldsee8474]

This is just like South Africa

[@rolandhng9322]

Which movie is this? Very interesting 😂😅🤣

[@hipsterelephant2660]

I'm thinking of that scene from The Cat in the Hat movie right now.

[@abrahamlincolnkickss5822]

This is what real Kung Fu looks like. Way different from how it was portrayed in the films. What an imagination.

[@mirrorocean3852]

What in the world is this 😂

[@user-dv2dk8ud8y]

台湾民主😂

[@leehoonloh9017]

Shame. 😅

[@Gloriaimperial1]

Moment: Super Bowl final 0:41 - 0:57 🙂

[@Fy20fy]

Now i know why china doesnt want to reunited back with taiwan.

[@brunoccj]

vice versa

[@brunoccj]

TW already have local Green Commie, no need for the Red Commie.

[@darth.severu5]

If China somehow took back Taiwan, Xi would have big-time headaches dealing with the black sheep.

[@dogger7051]

Beijing is the temu version of the USSR. Taiwan is the real China!

[@machi74513]

China must be happy

[@shemgjin1672]

世界每个人看了都开心....

[@rezbution]

What in tarnation

[@stustanski3912]

Bearded Clam Slappin

[@tiro_taiwan]

After Covid, our parliament finally get back to its original usage

[@bluefish7940]

😂😂😂 is this a joke 😂😂😂

[@samblogz]

This is nothing. In Taiwan, AKA "Ghost Island" as we all calls it, random people gets scammed and stabbed on streets on daily basis.

[@teddymoon3744]

they need Xi chinas help lol

[@shemgjin1672]

@teddymoon3744..台湾人早已经不知道什么是素质了...这就是因为民主而抛弃素质的代价.大家很痛苦

[@user-ug3ur3vc4i]

Showy fight

[@xiang2466]

Congress is Taiwan’s entertainment program😂

[@Eyes_of_Oryx]

??? …. ~ sigh ~

[@joc4294]

Political Circus 😢

[@KittyCEwert]

To give some insight behind the video. According to the DDP male legislator, at first he claimed that he did not remember that he had tackled a female legislator from an opponent party and knocked her off a "stadium" by grabbing her ankles! After people told him it's all caught on the video, he then explained that he accidentally "slipped on a piece of paper" which caused him to leap in the air and bumped into her 🤣 Now the DDP social media, news, TV stations are painting him as a hero to saving Taiwan's democracy.

[@TheGloriousLord]

0:23 looks more like "violence" on the bed

[@juliawu2603]

I’m a Taiwanese. This happening bc KMT broke the legislative norms of passing the laws. They skipped the process of reading those details of new law draft and directly sent those draft laws to voting, which means that nobody knew what’s the draft laws they were voting for, but KMT sent it to vote knowing they would pass their draft due to majority benefit. Skipping legislative norms shouldn’t happen in Taiwan. That is a China government thing who ripped civilian’s rights and democracy away.

[@irmaristiana9336]

😂😂😂😂

[@starris4695]

你是绿畜😅

[@yeeetingrespectfully7592]

I doubt that's the reason, from what I got from Western media, the bill criminalizes members of parliament for lying and chamber reform which gives greater scrutiny power over the government. it's obvious that the current ruling party is not going to like that.

[@lambchop6278]

I knew it!!! ...Knew China would have something to do with this!

[@user-jk6ed9ux1t]

Why did they do it?

[@chickenrees]

Fakkkkkk

[@juanraherrero3770]

They ran out of sushi

[@MowersNBlowers]

Sushi isn’t Chinese taco man!

[@jamshedsethna3428]

Tiawan the next Sacrificial proxy after Ukraine.

[@linshengchi92]

丟臉 執政黨

[@vister6757]

🤯💥 🤦🏼

[@user-qb5cv3on1w]

台湾人真搞笑

[@spreadloveandfaith4320]

你更可笑 不同意的请举手 没有 没有 没有 通过

[@irmaristiana9336]

Yes😂😂😂

[@user-qb5cv3on1w]

@@spreadloveandfaith4320 假民主和真独裁都是一样的离谱。

[@user-qb5cv3on1w]

@@spreadloveandfaith4320 你以为你真的有选票啊。你先自己竞选个立委先

[@rwejiq]

KMT and TPP parties hold the majority in parliament. They always collaborate to propose bills that are favor a certain foreign power(China) and not based on the interests of the Taiwanese people. The content of yesterday's bills has not been made public, and there has been no discussion; KMT and TPP were trying to force the bills through.This is not democracy. They caused a conflict because DPP were trying to block the passage of the unreasonable bill. As Taiwanese, we want to safeguard the hard-earned democracy. We do not want anyone to betray democracy and collude with foreign political forces（China) to undermine the values of democratic governance.

[@user-dv2dk8ud8y]

绿畜又来造谣了 😂

[@brunoccj]

DPP’s former President Tsai still showed up in a cuisine exposition and said nothing when Taiwan was surround by China jet fighters in 2022. Most of her campaign contributions are from real estate developers, let alone the China-funded Shopee shopping site registered in Singapore. Google “wikileaks Taiwan” to know DPP’s politicians have been using anti-China and independence (which US does not allow) as tools for election purposes (Taiwan’s Netanyahu?).

[@starris4695]

绿畜别胡言乱语了😅

[@malvinacarabas5768]

welcome to der`mocracy . It`s only beginning .

[@userzu1og3b16]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@songasalimsaleh1035]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cupoftea4787]

Some countries need to be governed

[@MowersNBlowers]

This isn’t a country! Otherwise they’d be in the UN and they’re not! They’d be in the Olympics, but they’re not!

[@nabilma8216]

“Let the world see Taiwan” is the slogan of DDP. Yes, they’ve succeeded it.

[@marineclaire3834]

Alors les jaunes le contrôle

[@vanbeet5105]

Every country that took on the British parliamentary system also took on the madness 😂😂😂

[@shaadahmed4456]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🇹🇼

[@imran1354]

Kung Fu

[@kayfreeborn6971]

MTG & AOC ain't NOTHING compared to the Taiwanese legislators. LOL!

[@siewheilou399]

阿共陰謀

[@shemgjin1672]

@siewheilou399。。。你早上还没吃脑科医生给的药吧！😂😂😂

[@liminalist451]

lol!!!!

[@ericwong4213]

Legalised law without vote? where's the democracy? using "security" is lame excuse to push law without majority vote.

[@amunra5330]

Liberal Democracy at work. The US loves this chaos.

[@carmenIajoie2719]

According to figures from Customs and Border Patrol, migrants from China encountered nationwide for the first seven months of 2024 stood at 48,501. The exodus marks a 64% increase in the number of migrants encountered compared to the same period last year and represents a rejection of Xi’s policies and ideology