DPP Legislators Demand Investigation Into Recall Amendment Vote

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Taiwan's Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu says he will investigate the three-minute meeting in the Internal Affairs Committee that advanced amendments to the Recall Act. KMT legislators barricaded the room to prevent DPP legislators from entering and joining the vote.

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00:00The meeting is now over.

00:05A three-minute committee vote on amendments that could make it harder to recall public officials,

00:10now under investigation.

00:12Members of the opposition, Kuomintang, quickly called together a meeting

00:16and advanced the measures from a barricaded room in Taiwan's legislature,

00:20keeping their opponents from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party out of the vote.

00:24Early in the morning, the KMT blocked the entrances with desks and chairs

00:29and even covered one door in plastic wrap.

00:41Some DPP lawmakers questioned whether the vote was valid

00:44and demanded an investigation by the legislative speaker.

00:59But an investigation alone may not stop the recall act from moving forward.

01:14The bill will move on to the floor for further discussion,

01:17where the DPP will need to gain a few allies if they want to stop it.

01:21Kama Sri and Tiffany Wong for Taiwan Plus.

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