Politics Taiwanese style

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-t...956388932.html

MPs' behaviour hard to stomach



Taiwan ruling Democratic Progressive Party's Wang Shu-hui chews on a proposal on opening direct transport links with China.
Photo: STR


May 31, 2006 - 11:56AM

Pandemonium broke out in Taiwan's parliament when deputies attacked a woman colleague for snatching and trying to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in a bid to stop a vote on the issue.
Lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party charged towards the podium and protested noisily to prevent the review of an opposition proposal seeking an end to decades-old curbs on direct air and shipping links with China.
Amid the chaos, DPP deputy Wang Shu-hui snatched the written proposal from an opposition legislator and shoved it into her mouth, television news footage showed.
Wang later spat out the document and tore it up after opposition lawmakers failed to get her to cough it up by pulling her hair.
During the melee, another DPP woman legislator, Chuang Ho-tzu, spat at an opposition colleague.
"She spat saliva," yelled Hung Hsiu-chu of the main opposition Nationalist Party.
Reuters

There must be something in the water because South East Asian politics involves plenty of fisty cuffs and stunts such as this. Entertaining however.