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An opposition lawmaker threw eggs at Kosovo s acting prime minister, Albin Kurt. Time Kadrijaj, an Alliance party MP, pulled eggs from her bag and threw them at the prime minister while shouting, Shame, shame.
Opposition members threw flares and smoke grenades inside the Serbian parliament in a sign of support for student-led protests in recent months. Demonstrations began after a train station roof collapsed and killed 15 people in November 2024. The incident ignited a long-simmering anger over corruption and alleged lack of oversight for construction and development projects. Continue reading "Serbia"
Albanian opposition lawmakers violently disrupted a Parliament session on Monday to protest against the imprisonment of a fellow legislator who was sent to jail on charges of slander.
A mayoral debate in the Brazilian city of São Paulo turned ugly when one of the candidates attacked a rival with a chair.
A mass brawl erupted in the Turkish parliament on Friday with rival politicians trading blows in front of the speaker s lectern.
A brawl broke out in Italy s parliament, resulting in the apparent injury of one lawmaker who had to leave the chamber in a wheelchair.
A scuffle broke out in the Taiwanese parliament days before the president-elect, Lai Ching-te, takes office without a legislative majority.
It was about a controversial bill: MPs in the Tbilisi parliament had a heated exchange of blows. First verbally and then physically, on camera. https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/georgisches-parlament-pruegelattacke-wegen-agentengesetz-a-a536c139-466d-4e81-9613-ab09999bb721
Background: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/albanian-opposition-protests-budget-parliament-with-smoke-bombs-fire-2023-11-20/
A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament after an opposition minister threw water at Prime Minister Albin Kurti while he was speaking about government measures to defuse tensions with ethnic Serbs in the country s north.