{"id":39399,"date":"2024-05-21T08:10:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39399"},"modified":"2024-05-21T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:10:21","slug":"protests-as-taiwan-parliament-pushes-contentious-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39399","title":{"rendered":"Protests as Taiwan parliament pushes contentious reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TAIPEI, May 21 &#8211; Lawmakers in Taiwan jostled, unfurled banners and shouted at each other on Tuesday in a dispute about efforts to widen parliament oversight pushed by the opposition, despite the anger of the ruling party, which says there has been no consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The squabble comes as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/new-taiwan-president-take-office-facing-angry-china-2024-05-19\/\">Lai Ching-te<\/a>&nbsp;took office on Monday as the new president, facing not only an angry China, which views him as a &#8220;separatist&#8221;, but also a fractured parliament, after his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost its majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several hundred people gathered outside parliament to protest against the reforms, and accused the opposition of working in concert with China and trying to kill democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two main opposition parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People&#8217;s Party (TPP), which together have enough seats for a majority, have joined hands to back reforms that give parliament greater scrutiny over the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That includes a controversial proposal for lawmakers to punish officials deemed to commit contempt of parliament by making false statements or &#8220;withholding information&#8221;, which the DPP says lacks a clear definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there was no repeat of Friday&#8217;s scenes of legislators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/taiwan-lawmakers-exchange-blows-bitter-dispute-over-parliament-reforms-2024-05-17\/\">punching<\/a>&nbsp;and wrestling each other in the chamber, DPP lawmakers wearing headbands reading &#8220;Democracy has died&#8221; demanded more discussions on the proposals and vented their anger at the KMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: TAIPEI, May 21 &#8211; Lawmakers in Taiwan jostled, unfurled banners and shouted at each other on Tuesday in a dispute about efforts to widen parliament oversight pushed by the opposition, despite the anger of the ruling party, which says there has been no consultation. The squabble comes as&nbsp;Lai Ching-te&nbsp;took office on Monday as the new president, facing not only an angry China, which views him as a &#8220;separatist&#8221;, but also a fractured parliament, after his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost its majority. Several hundred people gathered outside parliament to protest against the reforms, and accused the opposition of working&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39401,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399\/revisions\/39401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}