Sentences with phrase «referendum vote decision»

In a speech at Lancaster House, May outlined a «hard Brexit» stance, which toughened up the referendum vote decision into a commitment to re-control all immigration and exit fairly completely from all EU institutions and arrangements.

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Victory for the «Yes» vote in Metro Vancouver's upcoming transportation referendum will benefit people from all walks of life, according to the broad - based Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, which calls the referendum «one of the most important decisions facing our region for the next generation.»

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

VANCOUVER — Victory for the «Yes» vote in Metro Vancouver's upcoming transportation referendum will benefit people from all walks of life, according to the broad - based Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, which calls the referendum «one of the most important decisions facing our region for the next generation.»

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.

With 40,000 residents, 20,000 registered voters and 4,000 who actually vote, she said, the binding referendum could be the decision of 2,001 residents.

The more candidates a voter has to consider, the less likely a voter is to make an informed decision about any of those candidates and the harder it is for the media to communicate information about the people who represent the voter to the voter so that the voter may make referendum style decisions to vote out a bum who is underperforming or acting contrary to the voter's wishes.

In the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decided.

The decision to hold a referendum, changing how members can vote in leadership elections, the butterfly effect of political whim and political will.

What about his decision to raise English votes for English laws the morning after the referendum.

In the context of the Scottish referendum vote, this decision has implications for the following groups: (i) potential future Scottish citizens residing in rUK; (ii) potential future Scottish citizens residing in other EU member states; (iii) UK citizens residing in Scotland who will not opt for Scottish citizenship; (iv) non-UK EU citizens residing in Scotland who will not qualify or opt for Scottish citizenship.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.

As a French and Greek citizen, I won't have a vote in this referendum and yet this is one of the most momentous decisions that will ever be taken in my name, as a European citizen living on this side of the channel.

To make the point even more directly, if it is a consequence of a «yes» vote in the Scottish referendum that the rest of the UK must reapply to join the European Union and either looses its currency or is required to enter into a currency union with a foreign state, the impact of the decision is such that the English, Welsh, and Northern Irish voters should also have a say.

The rules for the referendum might not be as some of us would have wished but I can't think of anything more likely to increase disdain for MPs than if they vote to reject the people's decision.

They could also wait for the next hung parliament, and hope that a smaller party has enough influence (and determination) to hold a referendum on a PR voting system, but this depends on the luck of hung parliaments, and on the negotiating decisions of existing parties.

The senior Tory made the remarks — in earshot of journalists — after being asked about the decision of 116 Tory MPs to defy the prime minister and vote in favour of an amendment regretting the absence of a EU referendum in the Queen's speech.

The move has echoes of former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's decision to give his Cabinet a free vote in the 1975 referendum on whether the UK should remain part of the then Common Market.

Number 10 has released an open letter from Cameron to ministers setting out the rules that will underpin his decision to allow them a free vote in referendum.

According to an order for declaratory judgment which was sent by Rosenblum to a New York state Supreme Court judge on Oct. 17, the mayor will seek to nullify a decision by the Democratic majority of Leon Potok, David Finch and Ilissa Miller on the village board to authorize a ballot referendum that — if passed by public vote on Election Day — would restrict Rosenblum's ability to appoint a village attorney as well as certain land use board members.

«I listened to Tulip Siddiq's interview earlier and I thought what a dignified interview it was, of someone who is having to wrest with the problem that she has and many of us have where there's a national decision made in a national referendum but her constituency very strongly voted against that.»

The decision by the majority of the public who voted in the referendum to leave the European Union had a seismic impact in Westminster and well beyond our shores.

Most voters will have several ballot referendums to vote yay or nay on, and the consequences of those decisions influence policy.

All Out War states that the decision to change the question on the EU referendum ballot paper might have been worth 4 % of the referendum vote (p 91, All Out War).

The Law Society of British Columbia has reversed its accreditation of Trinity Western University's law school after the majority of the province's bar voted against its initial decision in a referendum last night.

The first impact of this decision occurred when the federal government drafted the Clarity Act, SC 2000 c 26, which gave the House of Commons the power to decide whether the proposed referendum question was clear, and whether a clear majority had expressed itself following the referendum vote, among other requirements.

The court approved the concession on the grounds that the principles of parliamentary sovereignty dictated that a referendum is always advisory unless there is very clear language to make it binding, that a parliamentary briefing paper available to parliamentarians said that the EU referendum was only intended to be advisory, and that a vote to leave would entail many outstanding questions as to how to implement the decision (see paras 105 — 8 of the judgment).

In April British Columbia benchers voted 20 - 6 against a motion barring TWU graduates from admission — a decision the benchers reversed in October following a referendum of its members.

Well not quite, but there can be little doubt that the UKs referendum decision is having and will continue to have an impact on the economy, and that the London centric professional service industry was largely in the Remain camp and somewhat taken aback by the Leave vote.

The investigation hinges on Vote Leave's decision to make donations totalling # 625,000 to Grimes, then a 23 - year - old fashion student, in the final days of the referendum.