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

Associated Press  

TAIPEI, Taiwan — 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. Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party, which said the bills threaten Taiwan’s democratic system, removed windows to get into the building Thursday night and take over the speaker’s area, piling up walls of chairs to block access, Taiwan’s Central News Agency said. The KMT, which took slightly more seats, has teamed up with a minor party to take control of the legislature and is jostling for power with Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, who is from the DPP. A DPP leader said in a social media video Thursday night that the party’s actions were extreme but that it had no other options, the Central News Agency reported.

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