Legislature approves three referendums for voting

‘WELCOME DEVELOPMENT’: The decision to reduce the referendums from six to three showed that lawmakers have taken a rational approach, the CEC’s chair said By Fion Khan and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writers, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The Legislative Yuan yesterday approved three referendums, which would be voted on alongside the local elections in November. It voted down a proposal on a referendum about legalizing euthanasia. The referendums passed are: introducing caning as a criminal punishment, abolishing the government’s “nuclear-free homeland” policy and using traffic fines to improve road safety.The opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) broke ranks on two of the votes, with the TPP declining to back the KMT’s proposal on caning, and the KMT