Fight breaks out at Kaohsiung council

‘EMBARRASSING’: The NPP’s Huang Jie denounced the use of a drawing to determine who could question the mayor at the session, which is to be used again today

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 27, 2019
By: Ko Yu-hao, Huang Chia-lin and Sherry Hsiao  /  Staff reporters, with staff writer

A scuffle erupted between Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)

Kaohsiung City councilors push and shove during a fracas in the debating chamber at the Kaohsiung City Council yesterday.
Photo: CNA

city councilors yesterday after DPP Kaohsiung City Councilor Cheng Meng-ju (鄭孟洳) attempted to hand a mock resignation letter to Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜).

After Han delivered a report at a meeting of the Kaohsiung City Council, the DPP caucus was the first to question Han.

Cheng, who was the first to speak, asked Han whether he could promise not to take time off on Nov. 12, when the council is to have a question-and-answer session.

Han, the KMT’s candidate in the presidential election on Jan. 11 next year, said that he had no such plans.    [FULL  STORY]

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