Taiwanese politician snaps chopsticks with his butt in exchange for votes

A remember election has turn out to be a authentic suffering in the butt for one particular prospect.

The recall vote for the mayor of Taipei, Taiwan, received more appealing last 7 days when Taipei Metropolis Councilor Chiu Wei-chieh pledged to “snap one chopstick in two with his buttocks for every single 10,000 votes exceeding 400,000 in the recall in opposition to then-Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu,” in accordance to the Taipei Situations.

Han experienced infuriated people today by pulling a de Blasio and working “as the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) prospect in the Jan. 11 presidential elections, moving into the race a number of months following he was elected mayor, in what some voters explained was a betrayal of his claims throughout his mayoral campaign,” according to the paper.

Chiu obtained extra than he bargained for with the remember stunt as 939,090 residents voted for Han’s removal — far greater than the demanded 574,996 votes.

Nonetheless, Chiu kept his assure and, in accordance to the paper, posted a online video on Tuesday of him busting chopsticks with his butt — prompting a New Taipei Town-primarily based gastroenterologist Chang Chen-jung, to alert that “splinters from broken chopsticks could accidentally pierce the flesh and lead to cellulitis.”

Chang spoke as out he was concerned people may test to emulate Chiu following observing his feat on online video, introducing he experienced “seen scenarios of men and women who experienced inserted issues into their anus, which experienced to be taken out by surgical treatment or endoscopy.”