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Uncertainty is also coming from other directions: Italy will hold a constitutional referendum by the end of this year, and France and the Netherlands will hold elections next year.
A Referendum on ObamaSTANFORD – Successful political candidates try to implement the proposals on which they ran.
The 2012 election is shaping up as a referendum on Obama’s policies and performance.
It seems increasingly likely that Russia also interfered in the Brexit referendum, as it did in the 2016 US election; and that Russian criminal elements have penetrated London’s financial and services sectors.
Consider Scotland, where a popular referendum on independence will be held on September 18.
The referendum is the result of the landslide victory by the Scottish National Party in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has argued against Scotland leaving the United Kingdom, but he has not opposed holding the referendum.
Opinion polls taken since the wording of the referendum (“Should Scotland be an independent country?”) was announced indicate that the “yes” side is unlikely to gain a clear majority.
But the Spanish parliament voted overwhelmingly against allowing the Catalan government to hold a referendum on independence, and the central government has said that such a vote would be unconstitutional.
Artur Mas, President of Catalonia’s regional government, has vowed to go ahead with a non-binding referendum anyway.
Had a free and fair referendum been offered to the Sudeten Germans, a majority might have backed union with Germany.
The role of a referendum in a region seeking to secede can therefore only be a form of persuasion aimed at the government of the existing state.
Many observers expected the 2016 election to be a referendum on cultural values, but voters instead sent a clear message about an economy that has excluded them.
If a referendum in Germany were held today, the supporters of a eurozone exit would win hands down.
According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, if a referendum on EU membership were held today, 83% of Europeans would vote to remain in the bloc; and a record-high 60% regard EU membership as a “good thing” for their country.
A referendum scheduled for January 9 will give voters in the South the opportunity to create their own sovereign state.
All polls suggest that, given the choice in a free, fair, and well-organized referendum, southerners will vote overwhelmingly for independence.
As Sudan’s referendum approaches, the world holds its breath.
The EU’s official reaction to the police violence witnessed during Catalonia’s independence referendum amounts to dereliction of duty.
For example, the EU could stipulate that it will sanction an independence referendum if the regional government requesting it has already won an election on such a platform with an absolute majority of the voters.
Moreover, the referendum should be held at least one year after the election, to allow for a proper, sober debate.
At the same time, French and Dutch citizens’ voices cannot be ignored – all the more so because it is unimaginable that an identical text could be submitted to a second referendum in either country.
The incumbent, Chen Shui-bian, has initiated a referendum process that might someday be used to ask Taiwanese if they want to formalize today's de facto independence.
But Belgium could have shown greater understanding for the Netherlands’ position after Dutch voters decisively rejected the proposed European constitution in the mid-2005 referendum.
In this regard, it is important to draw the right conclusions from Denmark’s “No” vote in its recent referendum on whether or not to join the euro.
Were other governments to follow Denmark’s example and call a referendum on the Euro, most would probably lose.
President Mitterrand reacted by calling for a similar referendum in France in order to support the Treaty.
Surprising almost everybody in France, the referendum came as close to a “No”, as Denmark had been close to a “Yes.”
This is why the result of the Danish referendum should be taken as a warning that great efforts must be made to convince Europe’s citizens of the Euro’s political importance – and of the importance of enlarging the Union.
It has been interesting to watch growth accelerate in the face of shocks such as the UK’s Brexit referendum and Trump’s election.
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