Lawmakers Or Lawbreakers: Watch Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches [VIDEO]

Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water at each other today ahead of an expected vote that would authorise a referendum on whether to finish a fourth nuclear power plant on the densely populated island of 23 million people.

Nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in Taiwan and became more so following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.

Fighting in the hallowed, nay hollow chambers is a bug that is spreading like wild fire.

Our so-called lawmakers have turned themselves into pugilist, fighting at any slight provocation. Like they say, “when the rain falls on the leopard, it does not wash off its spot”