﻿ Chaos as pan-greens prevent vote on links - Taipei Times Wed,
May 17, 2006 - Page 3　News List  Chaos as pan-greens prevent
vote on links  STRONGARM TACTICS DPP legislators resorted to
physical force to prevent the KMT and PFP from putting direct
links amendments to a vote  By Jewel Huang and Shih Hsiu-chuan
 /  STAFF REPORTERS  Democratic Progressive Party legislators
rush up to prevent People First Party Legislator Feng Ting-kuo,
center, from making a statement on his party's stance on
amendments to the law on direct links with China.   Employing
the same stalling technique as they had last Friday, pan-green
legislators yesterday again prevented the amendments dealing
with the issue of direct links with China from being put to a
vote, with the pan-blue camp saying it would retaliate by
boycotting further government budgets.  The cross-party
negotiation on direct links amendments proceeded from 9am
yesterday. But the pan-green and pan-blue legislative caucuses
had still not reached consensus on the 28th cla