Sentences with phrase «by a referendum last»

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Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Catalonia Sunday to call for unity, voicing their opposition to last week's non-binding and referendum on independence on October 1 that was declared illegal by the Spanish government and constitutional court.

The IBEX was recovering on Monday — up 0.5 percent by the close — after being under pressure last week following the referendum vote.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

Going into the UK's referendum to leave the European Union last month, the prevailing view was that the Stay camp would win by a narrow margin.

In point of fact, the issue of assisted suicide was addressed in this state by referendum just last November.

The possible referendum initiative was discussed last week by Library Board President James Wall during a joint meeting of the Library and Park District Boards.

Stung by the overwhelmingly negative responses last month by residents to two advisory referendum questions about the $ 12 million health facility, the park board quietly agreed Tuesday to take final action to abandon its role in the project at its April 16 meeting.

The idea was forwarded last month by Trustee Scott Berg in the wake of voters» overwhelming rejection of a referendum issue to create a Lake in the Hills park district.

Two «pass the pool» referendum proposals were sunk last year by voters, who by their vote said they didn't want higher taxes to pay for an aquatic center.

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

Opponents of holding a constitutional convention have over the last several weeks geared up their opposition to the coming referendum, arguing it could scale back gains made by organized labor, wreck the environment in he Adirondacks and be dominated by monied interest groups.

Since Labour went into the general election arguing that the issue of whether or not Britain was leaving the EU was settled by last year's referendum she urged colleagues not to «change tack».

The party may have saved the union by masterminding last year's referendum operation, but it has failed to stop a surge in nationalistic spirit that looks set to sweep Labour MPs from Westminster.

It played a small part in the Scottish referendum last time but the SNP were able to shut the issue down to a point by making the obvious argument that Britain was able to keep the pound in the EU, so Scotland should be able to too.

A poll released yesterday by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday newspaper showed the «no» campaign ahead but with a little over last two weeks before the referendum these events will be key for both campaigns to get their message across to the public.

This hews consistently with Cameron's political manifesto presented last election: that the Conservative Party would seek to renegotiate Britain's EU membership and hold a referendum by the end of 2017.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

But last year Jo Swinson, Christine Jardine and Jamie Stone won their seats by careful positioning in the post independence referendum as the candidates best placed to stop the separatist SNP.

California voters, facing even more severe transit raids than New York, put a stop to the practice by approving Prop 22 in a referendum last Tuesday.

The amendment, which passed overwhelmingly in a voter referendum last month, is called a «a major victory in the battle against corruption» by the mailer, obtained by Capital Tonight.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

It showed the average share of the vote for Yes and No recorded by the last six polls of referendum voting intentions.

The Liberal Democrats, who gave the Tories the jitters in David Cameron's Witney constituency last week by slashing the former PM's majority from 25,000 to 5,700, will turn the poll into a referendum on Brexit, not Heathrow.

Labour dramatically overturned the Scottish National party's (SNP) majority in the Dunfermline by - election last night, in a move which casts further doubt on Alex Salmond's ability to win the Scottish independence referendum next year.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

It has been the issue that has dominated the political news since last weekend, after David Cameron rattled the cage of SNP Leader Alex Salmond, by challenging him to hold an early Scottish Referendum.

Secondly, a poll conducted by the Mail on Sunday last weekend showed that only 26 % of voters who will be 16 and 17 at the time of the referendum support independence.

The last ballot measure that really got voters going was New York City's term limits referendum in 1993 — famously superseded by the 2008 City Council vote allowing Mayor Bloomberg's third term.

We were promised by all three party leaders in the last Parliament that we would have a referendum on Europe: the Conservatives went into the last election talking about a referendum lock.

Approved by the village board last month, the dissolution will automatically take effect unless a petition by a local resident to trigger a permissive referendum garners enough signatures by July 20.

William Hague said last night in Tadcaster, N Yorkshire that when asked what he wanted by the permanent secretaries recently he replied that if a Conservative Government was elected on a Thursday, he would require the mechanisms for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty to be in place by Saturday morning.

Last week, Mr Brown faced dissent within his own party, with the launch of an all - party campaign for an EU referendum, supported by Labour MPs including Kate Hooey, Gisela Stuart and Frank Fields.

The new Greek government proposals, published late last night are clearly based on those submitted by Jean Claude Juncker last Thursday, before the referendum.

For instance, before Britain's referendum on European Union membership last year, a poll by Ipsos Mori found that voters typically estimated the number of migrants living in the UK to be 31 % of the population.

The Prime Minister, on the other hand, has made his own position extremely vulnerable later this summer, first by pledging last year to quit after two terms and second by going ahead with a perilous and unpredictable EU referendum.

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has said «No» voters in last week's independence referendum were «tricked» by a late vow of more devolved powers.

The extent of devolution within England was brought into focus by last year's Scottish independence referendum, which triggered calls for more powers to be transferred out of London.

The referendum approved by New York voters last year initially will allow a total of four casinos in three parts of the state — the Catskills / Hudson Valley, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Souther Tier.

The announcement will be seen by some as a personal blow to the authority of Clegg, who has already seen the party's cherished hopes of voting reform defeated in last year's referendum, while he has asked his MPs to vote for bills deeply unpopular with Lib Dem supporters, including higher university tuition fees and the NHS shakeup.

Cuomo, last week, declined to take a stance on the New Jersey plan, backed by Gov. Chris Christie, to put the same - sex marriage issue to a referendum.

It is a bizarre feature of the AV referendum that it was actually proposed by neither of the parties who won the 2010 election, and who now form the government, but emerged as a last gasp from the bunker of the man who lost.

Blaming the con con is at odds with the stance taken by Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who said in an interview last week the convention referendum turnout had little impact on the corruption issues in Nassau County.

Defeated Scottish first minister Alex Salmond said he only lost the fiercely - contested referendum because of last week's «vow» by David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg promising a drastic shift in money - raising powers to Scotland in the event of a «No» vote.

Backed by at least $ 500,000 from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the political clout of ex-Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, gun control advocates last week turned in what they contend are enough signatures to add a voter referendum on Washington state's proposed Extreme Risk Protection Order to the ballot this November.

The letter has attracted support from even more Tory backbenchers than last year's «rebellion of the 81» which defied the government by voting for an EU referendum.

Last week also, in testimony to the Canadian Parliament, Aggregate IQ, who worked with SCL on the Nigeria campaign, for Ted Cruz and who were contracted by Vote Leave in the UK's EU Referendum said they worked with SCL, not Cambridge Analytica, on the Cruz campaign, despite Cambridge Analytica being the entity that worked on this election.

There was no hiding the delight among pro-Brexit supporters following the Commons vote, which many had argued was not necessary after the referendum result last June and that was forced on the government by the supreme court.

Labour for Independence, a small but energetic campaign set up for last year's Scottish referendum, has been fined # 1,500 by the Electoral Commission for failing to submit any accounts.