Sentences with phrase «by referendum vote»

A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward - thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote — making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow.

There is also a possible 75 % tax imposed on «extraordinary gains», but this may be struck down by referendum vote in early 2018.

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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).

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

Forecasts from groups such as the IMF and OECD in the run - up to the 2016 referendum were dismissed by pro-Brexiteers as «Project Fear» — intentionally over the top forecasts designed the scare the public into voting to remain in the EU.

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.

Most of the region voiced support for the July 16 referendum convened by the opposition against the assembly, and the EU and the US have suggested they could level sanctions on the Maduro government should the July 30 vote go ahead.

The failure of coalition talks is unprecedented in Germany's post-war history, and was likened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of U.S. President Donald Trump or Britain's referendum vote to leave the EU - moments when countries cast aside reputations for stability built up over decades.

The Church has published a «Prayer for the EU referendum campaign» on its website that can be used by churches and individuals ahead of the vote on June 23, the church said.

Many have criticised Corbyn for running a half - hearted campaign for Britain to stay in the EU leading up to Thursday's referendum, in which the UK shocked the world by voting to leave.

«The President of the Republic shall by decree proclaim a referendum on crucial national matters following a resolution voted by an absolute majority of the total number of Members of Parliament, taken upon proposal of the Cabinet.»

We were asked by CNBC to highlight how investors can protect their portfolio against a potential «leave» vote in the UK referendum.

The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

Should these decisions be made by lawmakers and technocrats or popular votes and referenda?

In a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout funds.

A second whistleblower from the firm also emerged at a parliamentary hearing in April claiming Britons» personal data may have been misused by a pro-Brexit campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union.

This anti-Bitcoin memo, which is not up for a vote as a referendum by the citizens of New Jersey, is an authoritarian decree by a totally unaccountable arm of the state.

Greek banks are closed all week after news broke that the country will be holding a referendum vote on whether to accept the bailout measures offered by international creditors.

In yet another unexpected twist to the Greek drama, Greek voters delivered a resounding «No» vote in Sunday's referendum, strongly rejecting the previous offer by Greece's creditors.

But the phenomenon appears to be spreading: this week Venetians have been voting on breaking away from Italy, albeit in a referendum not recognized by Rome or regional authorities.

Even if you knew the news ahead of time — «Greeks Vote No on Referendum» — you still have no way of knowing how this news will be interpreted by the markets (tens of millions of people you've never met, all buying and selling for different reasons).

Less than two years after the citizens of Washington voted by referendum to uphold the state's prohibition of physician - assisted suicide, a federal judge invalidated the statute as....

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Kateb is explicit that dignity overrides democratic process: «It is absurd that the voters of California, by majority vote in a referendum, could have decided that a judicially recognized right that allows people of the same sex to marry could be voided by their will.»

Ireland's recent decision to approve same - sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

A Church of Scotland clergyman has said Christians who vote no in the Scottish independence referendum are not «living by [Christian] principles».

1993 In a referendum called by the Secretary of Agriculture, dairy farmers vote 71 percent in favor of retaining the dairy checkoff program.

The regional government says 90 % voted for independence in the «illegal» referendum which was violently repressed by police.

Although all of the Oak Lawn votes had not yet been counted late Wednesday, voters there were rejecting the measure by better than a 2 - 1 ratio, stunning Park District officials who had seen them overwhelmingly approve an advisory referendum on the matter in November 2004.

However, he acknowledged that a park district can only be dissolved by referendum or by its own vote.

In December of 1972 the vote went against the Park District's referendum to issue $ 2,550,000 in general obligation bonds for park improvement and development including the construction of a fieldhouse at Dryden Park, land acquisition, the construction of a north side maintenance garage, and the construction of an indoor ice rink complex along with increasing the corporate tax rate by.025 %.

The referendum question to form a Park District lost by 28 votes, while the proposition to raise taxes to support the district lost 1,852 - 1,423.

By night's end, backers of library referendum propositions in Glen Ellyn and the Indian Prairie District had cause to celebrate as final unofficial vote counts came out in favor of building the two multimillion - dollar facilities.

Although the Park Board is not formally bound by the results of the March 21 advisory referendum, the 6,939 to 5,747 vote opposing construction of the outdoor facility on Park District property near Belmont Road and Grant Street gave members pause.

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.

«All of the affected electors will also be written to by their local Electoral Registration Officer with an explanation of what happened and will be told that they will not be able to vote at the referendum,» they said in a statement.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

The voting threshold necessary to prompt the exit process was never actually decided at all as such prior to the referendum, but assumptions were made by politicians and journalists about what would be politically acceptable to an emergent notion of popular sovereignty.

Commentators have focused on the «# 350 million per week» message delivered by Vote Leave, as evidence that the referendum was held under false pretences.

This follows legislation by the SNP government in Scotland to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence.

The bill in question was proposed by Tory John Stevenson, and asked «that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act 1983 to disenfranchise all residents of Scotland eligible to vote in any United Kingdom General Election held after 18 September 2014 in the event of a positive vote in the Scottish Independence referendum; and for connected purposes.»

First, because age and education are the biggest demographic correlates of referendum vote choice, we have weighted the YouGov respondents in each local authority so that their age and education profile matches that for that council as measured by the 2011 Census.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

Tory veteran John Redwood pointed out in a blog post that the motion's lack of detail was an attempt by Baron to «maximise support», because it allows both MPs who want a referendum in 2017 and one immediately to vote for it.

The Scottish Parliament should be given the power to call a referendum at anytime by super-majority: a referendum would be held if (say) two - thirds of MSPs eligible to vote supported it.

It is of course true, as another Independent article put it: «Young people — if you're so upset by the outcome of the EU referendum, then why didn't you get out and vote?

The biggest rebellion suffered by the coalition government so far against the whip was 82 (81 Tory, one Liberal Democrat) in October 2011's EU referendum vote

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 states.

[2] Some commentators suggest that he never expected to have to deliver the referendum thinking that it would be vetoed by Liberal Democrats in coalition or else be voted down by the opposition [3]; certainly it was a referendum that he never expected to lose.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday signed the historic letter that will launch Brexit, a photo released by her office showed, as she called for unity even as Scotland voted for a new independence referendum.