Sentences with phrase «decided by referendum»

He also responded with plans for a lengthy debate on the topic and stated that he believed the document to be too complex to be decided by referendum.

The order of the First Chamber, Second Chamber and European Parliament candidates list is decided by a referendum under all members voting by internet, phone or mail.

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By deciding to hold a referendum, «Tsipras exploits the ultimate weapon of democracy as a tactical ploy, undermining its political essence,» he said in a Twitter post.

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.»

Blievernicht, who is gathering signatures for a petition to decide such matters by referendum, told Village Board members this week that he is concerned about their plan to sell bonds for capital improvements.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

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.

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These calls for a one - on - one debate were dismissed by Cameron [369][370] on the basis that the referendum is «for Scots to decide» and the debate should be «between people in Scotland who want to stay, and people in Scotland who want to go».

However, this referendum will be decided by the people, not politicians, and we hope the media will make sure their voice is heard as well.

The groups also said lawmakers shouldn't duck the issue of publicly financed campaigns by asking voters to decide in a statewide referendum — one of many ideas being floated as lawmakers move closer to the April 1 state budget deadline.

The Conservative backbencher who topped a ballot for private member's bills will be given Parliamentary time to push for a referendum by 2017 deciding the UK's future in, or out, of the European Union.

In a statement signed by IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, it said «We the IPOB want to use this opportunity to thanked the Arewa Elders Forum, AEF, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British in 1914.»

Elliott recalls that Grayling was told by David Cameron that there was no need for him to resign, because he had decided to allow ministers to campaign on either side in the referendum - providing they waited until the deal with the EU was secured.

Councilmen Jumaane Williams, Mark Levine, Robert Cornegy, Corey Johnson, and Jimmy Van Bramer all backed a third term for the Council, with most saying it would have to be decided by voters in a referendum.

A landslide 89 percent of the respondents think the issue should be decided by public referendum.

Mr Salmond said: «It is important to say that our referendum was an agreed and consented process and Scotland has by a majority decided not at this stage to become an independent country.»

He believes that the matter should again be decided by the voters through referendum.

The Scottish party - backed by Conservatives in London - has decided against an early referendum as favoured by former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth and Scottish Labour leader, Wendy Alexander.

Referendum 55, a measure that gave voters a chance to decide the fate of a legislative bill passed in 2003 allowing charter schools, was failing by a large margin Tuesday night...

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But in a 2013 referendum, Hamburg's voters decided to remunicipalize the city's power, gas, and heating systems and supplies that are currently majority - owned by Vattenfall.

We're going to end up with a worse deal by leaving rather than remaining in the EU, so I hope that once the Brexit plan has been finalised, a second referendum will be called and people can decide if that's really what they want for our country.

It is respectfully submitted that the government's concession was wrong, that there is at least a respectable argument that the result of the referendum by itself required the government to implement leaving the EU by the only means possible, an Art 50 notice, and that the popular view, that the referendum was held to decide the issue, is correct.

It seems extraordinary that the government, having relentlessly emphasised for more than three years that the people would decide the issue by the referendum, should have accepted that it was only advisory.

The prime minister in the Bloomberg speech in January 2013, announcing the commitment to hold an in / out referendum, published by the coalition government: «I say to the British people this will be your choice... at the end of (the) debate you, the British people will decide.»

The 1967 referendum On 27 May 1967, after years of campaigning by numerous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and organisations, the nation went to the polls to decide if the Constitution should be amended to: