TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The opposition majority at the Legislative Yuan on Tuesday defeated the government’s attempt to overturn the tightening of recall regulations.

The Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party voted in December to raise the threshold for recall petitions in the Public Officials Election Recall Act. The Cabinet announced in January that it would call for a new vote to try and overturn the amendments.

However, 60 out of 113 lawmakers rejected the government’s attempt Tuesday, with only the 51 legislators of the Democratic Progressive Party backing the Cabinet. The 60 who rejected the revote were all of the 52 KMT lawmakers, two KMT-leaning independents, and six TPP legislators, with two TPP members absent, the Liberty Times reported.

The opposition-backed amendments stipulated that people signing recall petitions also submit pictures of their ID. Tuesday’s vote came as campaigners on both sides were submitting endorsements to recall dozens of lawmakers. Once the new legislation takes effect, the recall campaigners might need to start from scratch under the new rules.

The government also lost a similar revote at the Legislative Yuan on Jan. 10 about controversial amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act.