TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A recall campaign targeting KMT Kinmen Legislator Chen Yu-jen (陳玉珍) ended on Wednesday as organizers said they could not gather the required support before amendments to the recall law came into effect.

The KMT and TPP-backed amendments came into effect on Thursday after a majority of legislators passed them in December. On Wednesday afternoon, the organizing group Chen Obstructs Kinmen (珍礙金門) said it did not collect enough signatures to initiate the first recall phase before Thursday.

Under the old rules, campaigners needed to gather 1% of all voters' signatures to initiate a recall’s first stage. Now, they must provide 1% of all voters’ signatures, alongside copies of their IDs.

In a statement on Threads, the group said the campaign would stop collecting support and “withdraw from the battlefield’s front line.” The group said it had no ill will towards Chen, and asked her to put aside her “arrogant attitude” and listen to Kinmen people with different views.

The group thanked its supporters and apologized for failing to get the recall to the first stage. It said the future holds “many possibilities,” but its volunteers would pause for now.

In a Facebook post after the announcement, Chen thanked Kinmen for “rejecting” the campaign. She said the recall campaigns sweeping Taiwan were an “unhealthy trend of vicious party struggle.”

There were around 124,000 voters in Kinmen at the general election last year, according to the county government.