Recall Amendment Passes Legislative Committee, DPP Blocked From Discussions

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In a three-minute meeting, KMT lawmakers have advanced a controversial amendment that would raise the threshold to recall public officials while preventing DPP lawmakers from entering the room for the preliminary vote.

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00:00Amendments to election laws that would make it harder to recall public officials have passed committee review in the legislature

00:06After a rapid-fire meeting this morning with only opposition legislators in attendance

00:11A reporter Tiffany Wong is at the legislature in Taipei

00:15Tiffany how did this happen so quickly?

00:20That's right

00:21Well things are moving extremely quickly at the legislative UN here this morning

00:26Those proposed amendments to raise the threshold for the number of votes needed for recalling public officials

00:33passing out of committee review

00:36After the opposition going down legislators did everything that they possibly could to make sure that it would pass

00:42Take a look at scenes from this morning

00:45The Internal Affairs Committee was set to hold cross-party discussions on this legislation for the third time

00:52But instead the ruling DPP Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers were blocked from entering the room the KMT lawmakers

01:00Crowded the hall they even put desks and chairs in front of the door and even wrapped the door in

01:07plastic to try and prevent other lawmakers from coming in the KMT then held the meeting on their own without any

01:14DPP lawmakers present

01:17And there will be a direct review of the 32nd article. Do you have any objections?

01:26No objections

01:27Do you have any objections to the 43rd article?

01:31No objections

01:33Do you have any objections to the 52nd article?

01:37No objections

01:39Do you have any objections to the 53rd article?

01:43No objections

01:45Do you have any objections to the 67th article?

01:48No objections

01:51Do you have any objections to the 69th article?

01:54No objections

01:57Do you have any objections to the 75th article?

01:59No objections

02:01Do you have any objections to the 90th article?

02:04No objections

02:07No objections. Passed

02:09As you saw just there the committee review was called together by the KMT legislators and

02:14Adjourned in just three minutes. This means that the amendments can now be passed on to the floor for discussions

02:23Tiffany it seems like there's definitely going to be some sort of backlash over this. What reactions have we been hearing already?

02:33Well immediately following that three-minute committee review hearing

02:38DPP lawmakers immediately expressed their concerns about whether what they saw this morning is an obstruction of the legislative process

02:46one

02:47DPP lawmaker posted on social media

02:50comparing the KMT's actions today to the Chinese Communist Party another comparing it to a

02:57Reminiscent of a period of martial law now the DPP lawmakers are saying that the KMT really wants to raise this

03:05Threshold because they are afraid of their own lawmakers and mayors being recalled themselves

03:11but the KMT also held their own press conference saying that the DPP has used tactics like these in the past and now

03:19This legislative this amendment will be passed on to the floor for cross-party discussions in the future

03:26But we can be sure to see more clashes between the parties on this

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