Eine kleine Geschichte der Parlamentsschlägerei (33c3)

I already were at another conference

and know you can listen to a moderation

how it would be done professionally

laughter

You have to image myself in a suit or sth like that

For sure, everyone knows,

that it is the goal of "big politics"

to create majorities.

For creating majorities, it is important to

stay so vague in saying stuff,

such that as many as possible agree with the said.

The "saying nothing professional" was

brought to an artform by "big politics"

during the centuries.

So it is understandable, that the

"nothing sayers" in the

parliaments of the world have to get rid

of the frustration about

the meaninglessness of their own doing.

There are multiple ways for doing this;

today we want to look at the most spectacular way.

And so I'm glad to present the talk from

Joachim Schautenbach and Pia Fortunata

"A small history of parliament fights"

So many words, but it is so easy

Everyone of us is annoyed

for at least 3 years.

We have to blow steam!

Today we have a look at

parlamentarians giving themselves a

proper licking.

applause

Welcome to "a small history of parliament fights"

You all know the problem

parliaments are most of time

quiet boring

and action is not a regular thing

in the Bundestag.

Because of this we had a look at some

other parliaments a few years ago

and were surprised about the possible.

Such a parliament fight is not

extraordinary democratic, but

can produce pictures of artistic value.

Sometimes in golden ratio

and sometimes not

And from that interest, the worldwide only

expert blog about parliament fights arose.

Which we keep for six years now.

This is our blog,

the domain is written in the program

we can repeat that at the end

We collected about 90 parliament fights

on that blog in the last six years

The last one is a week ago

in Kenia

and we try on a short summary.

First of all about the theory:

The history of parliament fights.

The encyclopedic collective term is

Legislative violence

What's funny about that

You can read that on wikipedia

The history of legislative violence

dates back until the

murder of Julius Ceasar

44 BC in the senate of Rome

The big question is

why is there violence in parliaments

one of the few scientists

who got deeply engaged with the topic

is Christopher Gandrud

who wrote a PhD theory about the topic

and a few other publications

ho considers the following factors

important for the rising

of a parliament fight.

If political parties are underrepresented

happening e.g. through

first-past-the-post systems

or high percentage hurdles

therefore the voting system does'nt

map the real voting results well

Another important factor is

the democracy is quite young

The younger the democracy

the higher the propability

of violence in the parliament

Gandroud put the in a nice picture

the contrast

more contrast

okay anyway

much depends on how old is a democracy

Another factor is the

ethnical, political and religious

division of the society

The more division the more fights

and furthermore he fund out

the parliament fights happen more often

in the forefront of actual wars

and civil wars

One phase of great legislative violence

was the prewar time of the

american civil war

where parliamentists were stabbed

and challenged each other to duel

or one beat another to near death

with a stick

happened 1864 in the eve of civil war

in the US congress

as the democrat brucks

bate the repuclian sander to near death

after the...

bullshit

after Sander hold a speech against slavery

in the congress, after that he got a

decent beating.

from germany we found

just a single example

1950 the formerly NSDAP member

Wolfgang Regler which also was

a representative in post war germany

was noticed for being a antisemite

and right wing extremist

was suspended from the Bundestag for a

short time

got back despite his suspension

and then got thrown out

of the building

by social democrats

applause

during his forced exit, he fell through

a glass door and down the stairs

laughter

After the second world war

itlay was leading for a while

There are even books about the conflicts

in italian parlaments. One is called

"tumulti in aula"

Until today, there occasionally happen

parliament fights in italy.

Let's got to the episode

"Where do the fights happen?"

This is our tag cloud

on our blog showing the countries

where we found parliament fights

Of course this is'nt representative

like the PhD thesis of Gandrud

He did a map showing all the fights from

1981 to 2012

This is still not enough contrast

at least on the monitor

In this period, there were 131 fights

in parliaments

Leading are the ucraine, turkey and cosovo

which still might be on the opt

Italy is still bit influenced by its past

Since the fall of USSR

russia got quieter

The question

Wo fights

Parliamentary violence

is done mostly by men

laughter

Women are more active

than in playing football