The Legislative Yuan was in an idle spin on Tuesday morning as the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers reneged on an agreement the previous day to finish three bills before the session adjourns Tuesday. DPP lawmakers occupied the podium and forced the legislative session to grind to a halt to protest the ruling Kuomintang's (KMT's) initiative to revise the Local Government Act to give paid jobs to chiefs and councilors of townships in the designated special municipalities. Those people were set to lose their posts by the end of the year when the townships are converted into districts under special municipalities. According to the KMT initiative, the township chiefs would be appointed as directors of districts under the special municipalities, while the township councilors as advisers to directors. Calling the KMT initiative an attempt to buy these people's support for its candidates in the year-end elections of the chiefs of the municipalities, the DPP lawmakers refused to follow through on their promise the previous day to deal with it, let alone the government's 2010 general budget, and a bill to revise the organization of the Executive Yuan. The two parties also agreed on Monday that no extra legislative session will be called after the recess. 