Referendum

Ireland’s progressive Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced he is resigning for “personal and political” reasons.

Sen. J.D. Vance, who was quite involved in the “no” campaign for Issue 1, laid out five insights into Ohioans who voted to pass the abortion amendment.

Emboldened by their success in Ohio, pro-abortion activists are seeking to introduce ballot measures in several more states going into 2024.

Ron DeSantis called out the pro-life movement for being ill-prepared to combat abortion referenda since the Supreme Court overturned Roe.

Australia’s venerable and widely-read Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on Friday apologized for articles published in 1838 that defended colonists accused of murdering dozens of Australia’s indigenous inhabitants.

Rental electric scooters are to go the way of the dodo in Paris after residents of the city voted to ban them in a referendum on Sunday.

A nationwide referendum to make possible an early election has failed to produce a legally binding result because the turnout was too low.

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

The Russian government under strongman Vladimir Putin is planning a concert in Moscow’s Red Square on Friday evening to welcome the annexation of four regions of Ukraine – Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” – that represent about 15 percent of Ukrainian territory.

An overwhelming majority of Chileans voted Sunday to reject the proposed draft of a radical far-left constitution that would have replaced the nation’s 42-year-old constitution with the “world’s most progressive” core legal structure. 

The president of Georgia’s South Ossetia region, a Russian-backed self-proclaimed separatist state, suspended on Monday a planned referendum that would have seen South Ossetians vote on formally joining the Russian Federation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Tuesday.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen duked it out on Wednesday evening, with the populist challenger pressuring the President in a debate on subjects including Islamism, immigration and the economy.

Populist presidential Marine Le Pen has hinted at the possibility of a referendum that could see the death penalty return to France.

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.

Leftists opposed to the Hungarian government’s stance on LGBT issues were able to successfully invalidate a referendum by spoiling ballots.

Any political or territorial compromises Kyiv potentially makes with Moscow to negotiate a peace deal between the warring sides will be submitted to the Ukrainian people in a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne) on Monday.

The city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, voted not to remove English as its official language in a referendum ballot question on Tuesday.

A plurality of Britons want a public referendum on Boris Johnson’s plans to commit Britain to carbon net-zero by 2050, which Conservative MPs have criticised for being costly and threatening to throw the average Briton into poverty.

Populist French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has revealed her plan to drastically reduce immigration into the country. 

The tiny republic of San Marino passed a referendum legalizing abortion Sunday, eliminating one of Europe’s last pro-life bastions.

ROME (AP) – Voters in San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy, voted Sunday whether to decriminalize abortion, with the Roman Catholic Church firmly opposed and the ‘Yes’ camp hoping to make the procedure legal in some circumstances.

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.

Over 750,000 Italians have signed a petition for a public referendum on legalizing euthanasia, guaranteeing its presence in the next national elections, local media reported this week.

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

Voters in Gibraltar have endorsed legislative changes that will ease the British territory´s current ban on abortion.

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.

Switzerland has voted to increase powers to monitor terrorists, which will allow police to monitor children as young as twelve.

Planned Parenthood said it will stop abortions in its Lubbock clinic as a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” ordinance takes effect.

Connecticut Republicans in the state House were successful Tuesday in blocking a 2022 referendum on a constitutional amendment that would permit no-excuse absentee voting in the state.

Populist MP Marine Le Pen has promised to organise a national referendum on migration as her first act as president if she wins the French elections in 2022.

Swiss locals are set to vote on a referendum that could force local police to release the nationality and background of criminals after the Zurich city police decided to stop publishing the information. The proposed referendum, which will take place

Voters in the state of Washington are deciding Tuesday on the nation’s first sex ed statewide ballot measure for public schools.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory on Thursday as 78 percent of Russians supposedly voted in favor of constitutional amendments that would allow him to remain in power until 2036, while only 21 percent voted against.

Locals on the Italian island of Lampedusa participated in a referendum calling for an end to new illegal migrant landings.

French populist leader Marine Le Pen has proposed settling France’s immigration issues by recommending referendums on a number of immigration topics.

Bill Currier explained how Oregon’s Democrats are attaching an emergency clause to the H.B. 2020 “cap and trade” bill to deny referendums.