Referendum petition failure

The initiator of a labor rights referendum burns all the signatures in front of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's headquarters in Taipei Friday after announcing that the petitions calling for national referendums on revoking amendments to the Labor Standards Act and proposing a new law on national holidays had failed. CNA photo Sept. 14, 2018

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