Sentences with phrase «first voter referendum»

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Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

Pundits who throughout the summer had billed the elections as the first post-Webster «referendum on abortion» increasingly argued, as fall rolled around, that abortion had «faded» as a decisive issue for voters.

Tinley Park residents decided in November 1998 that the price for the Park District's first recreation center was too high, so voters rejected a referendum proposal seeking a 12.5 cent tax rate increase to fund the project.

«We have an opportunity, if voters in town agree with the referendum, to have new debt in place with a minimal impact to residents,» said Wilson, adding that with currently low interest rates, residents likely would see no tax increase during the first five years of the 15 - year bond sale and a minimal increase for the following 10 years.

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

Spokesman John Conklin says the commissioners also decided that the casino gambling expansion referendum should be the first one of six proposals that voters will see on the November ballot.

So Smith wants a Labour Government then with his call for another referendum on the EC (not accepting the democratic will of he people) the first thing he does is slap 17m Out voters in the face and a significant number of these are potential Labour voters!

A supporter of the convention, Davis is challenging the ballot placement given it's the first time in recent political history the once every 20 year referendum is being put to voters on paper, not lever machines.

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.

Alex Salmond today said he would be standing down as Scotland's First Minister and Scottish National Party leader after voters in Scotland rejected independence in an historic referendum.

First, we found that locally Ukip really is gunning for Labour: targeting working - class areas where Labour is locally dominant in the hope of cementing support among blue - collar voters, and forcing Miliband to promise an EU referendum.

Speaking immediately after Scotland's voters backed remaining in the EU by 62 % to 38 % in last June's referendum, the former first minister Alex Salmond said it would be a logical option for an independent Scotland to take over the UK's membership of the EU post-Brexit.

It contrasts with the New Zealand referendum which took a two - stage approach — asking first if voters wanted to keep or discard the current system, and if the latter, asking which exact system they would replace it with.

Sturgeon announced that she was instructing Scottish government officials to draft fresh referendum legislation for Holyrood, only two years after her party lost the first independence vote in 2014, to ensure it could be held quickly if enough Scottish voters backed it.

The first minister's remarks come as the Scottish Parliament is set to debate Scotland's future - one year before voters are to decide in a referendum whether it should become an independent country.

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has assured voters in tomorrow's Scottish referendum of a «common - sense agreement on a common currency» in the event of a «Yes» result.

The new Government has said it will hold a referendum on whether to replace our current voting system, first past the post, with the Alternative Vote, which allows voters to express more than one preference.

In this, the EU referendum is similar to the UK's Alternative Vote referendum in 2011, in which voters were asked if they wanted to replace the first past the post voting system with the «alternative vote».

The committee, whose first meeting is Feb. 21, would also look at the best ways to break up school districts, including whether to require a referendum by voters.

If the Court allows the initiative to go forward, this would be the first time any state has held a voter referendum on Common Core.

Voters in Boulder (Colorado) passed a carbon tax referendum in 2006; while Boulder's tax equates to just $ 7 / ton and applies only to electricity, it nonetheless establishes an important precedent: the first climate - protecting tax ever levied in the United States.

In less than a month, Virginia voters will pick 100 people to represent them in the House of Delegates, races that will be closely watched as an early referendum on President Donald Trump's first year in office.