While debating a bill governing political parties ahead of next year’s election for hours, Kenyan lawmakers got into a fight. One lawmaker had blood dripping from his face afterwards. Lawmakers also threw sheets of paper around.
Punches during discussion on women’s rights
Lawmakers in Jordan started to punch each other when women’s rights were debated in parliament. Constitution was about to be changed to address male and female Jordanian citizens.
Mobile money tax debate ends in brawl
Opposition lawmakers in Ghana rejected a proposed tax levy of 1.75 percent on electronic transactions. They then tried to prevent the Deputy Speaker from leaving his seat to vote, chaos began.
Brawl in Taiwan interrupting speech
Taiwanese opposition members interrupted the annual speech of premier Su Tseng-chang and demanded his resignation. They protested against the government’s handling of the pandemic.
One day, two brawls in Armenia
The parliamentary session had to be interrupted twice on one day. Government and opposition members fought after the former defense minister was accused of accepting bribes. The former defense minister threw a water bottle and the situation escalated into a mass brawl.
According to media reports, water bottles and hand sanitisers have been removed after the incident.
The second scuffle occured when an opposition member was interrupted by heckling when he said the prime minister was a lying populist.
Scuffle after death of cameraman
After a cameraman died while covering a violent anti-Pride demonstration, opposition members tried to bring the director of a TV station to parliament. He wanted to ask why the police failed to protect the journalist. Protesters demanded prime minister Gharibashvili’s resignation, a scuffle broke out.
Chaos during budget discussion
Lawmakers in Pakistans National Assembly engaged into a fight during budget proposal discussions. Files and books were thrown. Afterwards seven parliament members were temporarily banned.
Wrestling on the floor in Bolivia
An opposition member and a politician of the ruling party MAS started a fight over a disagreement whether Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Áñez led a legal transitional government or launched a coup d’état against former president Evo Morales.Áñez had been arrested before. They got into a fist fight and started wrestling on the floor while another scuffle erupted between two female MPs.
Fighting for the microphone
In Czech’s Lower House of parliament a scuffle broke out after the microphone of the parliamentarian Lubomir Volny was muted. He tried to speak into the chairman’s microphone instead while others grabbed him to drag him away. The brawl was sparked by a dicussion about the CoV state of emergency. Volny himself was not wearing a mask.
Military intervention in Ghana’s parliament
Legislators in Ghana clashed over the election of the next parliament speaker. One MP alledgedly snatched paper ballots, television was broadcasting the scenes. Finally the army intervened after chaotic hours.
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