Taipei Times
Date: Apr 15, 2015
By: Alison Hsiao  /  Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday used their majority advantage to pass

A group of legislators yesterday vote on a motion to have Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Pasuya Yao handed over to the legislature’s Discipline Committee for allowing an activist group to sit in on last week’s Internal Administration Committee hearing. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

a motion to have Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Pasuya Yao (姚文智) handed over to the legislature’s Discipline Committee for allowing a representative of an activist group to sit in during a legislative committee hearing and “harass” a KMT legislator last week.

Representatives of Taiwan March, an activist group that has been pushing for the passage of amendments to the Referendum Act (公民投票法), sat in on a meeting of the legislature’s Internal Administration Committee on Thursday last week to review the act. Their presence was sanctioned by Yao, the committee convener who presided over the meeting that day.

After the meeting adjourned, Taiwan March founder and Academia Sinica researcher Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) confronted KMT Legislator Chang Ching-chung (張慶忠), accusing him of spouting nonsense and obstructing the review of the Referendum Act, and calling him the “shame of the legislature.”     [FULL  STORY]