A day after his inauguration, politicians from both sides brandished protest signs and engaged in rowdy arguments.'Today is second day in office. If there's another conflict in parliament, how can we explain this?' asked the firebrand parliamentary speaker, Han Kuo-yu, of the opposition Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party.
Kuomintang legislators gather by the parliament speaker’s seat as Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers display placards that read ‘anti-black box and return to retrial,’ and stage a protest before voting on a parliamentary reform bill at the legislature in the capital Taipei on May 21, 2024. AFP PHOTO'Shut up!' yelled back lawmakers from Lai's Democratic Progressive Party , which failed to secure a parliamentary majority after winning the January 13 elections.
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