Lawmakers Turn Lawbreaker: World's Worst Parliamentary Clashes

Taiwan, 2013:
In 2013, when the opposition party tried to occupy the president’s platform, Taiwan lawmakers put each other in headlocks and wrestled on the floor of the legislature. The incident happened in a bid to break off a vote on a nuclear power plant. Opposition Party spokesperson said, “The ruling party shouldn’t use the violence of majority rule to push through the nuclear power plant project,” reports Bloomberg. “We support the hard work of our party members,” added the spokesperson. Political fights have been quite common in Taiwan since the country's martial laws were struck down in 1987.

Turkey, 2014:
Recently, the Turkish parliament has passed a law to tighten the government's grip on the judiciary after a heated debate and brawl. As per the media report, Ali Ihsan Kokturk, MP for the main opposition Republican People's party, was taken to hospital with a broken nose and another politician suffered broken fingers. The opposition feels that the bill which the protesters are outrage with the view that the inquiry appears to have limited the judiciary's independence and it still needs the president's approval, to pass it.

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