referendums

Populists VOX called for Spain to hold referendums on issues including illegal immigration, arguing citizens should have a more direct say.

Speaking in the run up to April 24 French Presidential Election, populist candidate Marine Le Pen has called for a “referendum revolution” to put sweeping policy changes to a democratic vote, claiming President Emmanuel Macron has given power to technocrats.

More than half of the French public believe that the democratic system in France does not work well, while a plurality believes democracy has deteriorated during the presidency of Emmanuel Macron.

Nigel Farage, who led the decades-long campaign for the UK to leave the EU that culminated in the 2016 Brexit vote, has suggested that his next big fight in the political arena could be against Boris Johnson’s Green New Deal, and could lead the campaign for a referendum on the prime minister’s Net Zero plans.

GENEVA (AP) – Voters in Switzerland will decide Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriages in the rich Alpine country, one of the few in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will put forward a referendum asking Hungarians if they want LGBT and gender issues taught to children.

A poll has revealed that 62 per cent of French people would support holding a nationwide referendum on the subject of limiting immigration to France.

BERLIN (AP) – Swiss voters decide Sunday on a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters. Polls are pointing to a close outcome.

GENEVA (AP) – At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.

California voters passed four uncontested bond measures on Tuesday, and then trounced Proposition 70 as punishment for Republican “triangulators” who extended climate change taxes for another decade.

Over the past few weeks, leading into the California Republican Party’s convention in Orange County this weekend, there have been mailings supporting the argument that the “top two” or “jungle primary” system created by Proposition 14 in 2010 is a good idea.

There are only two ballot referenda worth supporting this year in California: numbers 54 and 66. Vote no on the rest.

After polls close at 10pm tonight, the full results of Britain’s referendum on European Union (EU) membership are unlikely to be known until after 7am. By around 3 or 4am, however, it is expected there will be a reasonably clear picture of which way the vote will go.

In the wake of a potential ‘Brexit’ a top French lawyer has demanded that the European Union (EU) “stop sacrificing the European project” and ban referendums. Laurent Cohen-Tanugi called direct democracy “populist suicide” and claimed that people’s opinions in the internet

Switzerland could be the next European country to ban wearing the burka in public if campaigners are able to secure enough support for a national referendum. The Swiss canton of Ticino last year banned the wearing of the garments, prompting

The Irish will be heading to the polling stations on Friday to vote Yes or No as to whether: ‘Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex’ should be added to

British taxpayers have been signed up to paying £18million into an EU propaganda programme by MEPs from across the Continent, with only a tiny percentage earmarked for Eurocrat-approved programmes here in the UK. The ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme is designed