Referendum

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.

The referendum to approve constitutional amendments that extended Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s term, granted permission for him to run for another six years in 2024, and increased the powers of his office has passed with over 88% of votes cast in favor, according to the Egyptian election commission.

A referendum is in progress in Egypt to approve amendments to the constitution that will increase the powers of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and allow him to remain in office until 2030.

The UK’s Brexit vote was caused by misplaced “anger” and foreign disinformation, Emmanuel Macron said, in a speech warning critics of his globalist regime in France to beware “people who manipulate you with miracle ideas”.

According to a new poll, 80 percent of the French public support a proposal backed by the Gilets Jaunes  (Yellow Vests) movement that would allow citizens to propose referendums that would create new laws.

More than 100,000 people have signed an online Government petition to demand the Brexit referendum is not rerun and “ensure democracy rules.”

Around two-thirds of Brits do not think a second Brexit referendum, or so-called “people’s vote,” is likely.

More than 60 percent of Britons say a second Brexit referendum would either end in calls for a third vote, not be accepted by the public, or risk civil unrest, a poll has revealed.

Romanian election officials say more than 90 percent of those who took part in a national referendum supported defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, but the vote was invalidated as too few people cast ballots.

A senior Labour politician has said he is prepared to provoke social unrest on the streets of Britain in order to block a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, blaming the “alt-right” for pushing a clean exit from the bloc.

LONDON (AP) — Google is suspending all advertising connected to Ireland’s abortion referendum as part of moves to protect “election integrity,” the company announced Wednesday.

Irish actor and abortion advocate Liam Neeson has published an open letter in the Irish Independent urging citizens to overturn Ireland’s constitutional amendment that recognizes the right to life of unborn children.

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association (HJTA), which has led California’s “Reject The Gas Tax” ballot initiative, delivered 940,000 signatures to Sacramento Tuesday, far above the required 585,407 valid signatures necessary to qualify the gas tax repeal for the November 2018 ballot.

“In the #MeToo moment, it is pretty bewildering that this kind of ignorance can still thrive,” she explains. “I’ve got seventeen pages of documentation of women and girls being harmed by men who infiltrated their spaces in the last two years alone,” Triller said. “I stopped counting in July because it was getting so depressing. Voyeurism is an epidemic.”

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday charged 13 Catalan separatist politicians, including fugitive former regional president Carles Puigdemont, with rebellion for their attempt to declare independence from Spain.

Irish ministers have unanimously approved a referendum to be held by the end of May. Its purpose is to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment, which prevents abortion.

Switzerland has moved a step closer to breaking free of the European Union (EU) after the government allowed proponents of a campaign to curb immigration to start canvassing public support for a referendum.

Tens of thousands of Irish Catholic assembled across the island for one of the largest religious events in the nation’s recent history, praying for the rosary for the conservation of the Catholic faith and to keep the country pro-life.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish riot police smashed their way into Catalan polling stations Sunday to try to halt a disputed referendum on independence, firing rubber bullets and attacking voters who were trying to stop them from confiscating ballots. The daylong melee injured at least 460 civilians and 11 police, authorities said.

TEL AVIV – Senior Iranian officials claimed Monday’s independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan was a “plot” orchestrated by Israel and the United States.

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court plans to investigate possible sedition charges for demonstrators who took part in a massive protest against a police crackdown on preparations for an Oct. 1 referendum on the Catalonia region’s independence.

Spanish President Mariano Rajoy will visit the White House on Tuesday, where he will reportedly ask President Donald Trump to declare his opposition to the Catalonia independence referendum scheduled for October 1.

A Sacramento judge ruled Friday that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s title and summary for a ballot initiative to repeal the gas tax passed by the legislature in April was misleading, and said he would rewrite it.

The Senate approved a last-minute request by Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) on Tuesday to spend $600 million to build a new U.S. Navy ship in Mobile, Alabama, hoping to help the embattled incumbent in the runoff Sep. 26.

For the second time in less than a year, the CalExit effort in California will gather signatures for the right to secede from the United States.

President Donald Trump has sent out another clear message on the worsening political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, promising “strong and swift economic actions” should socialist leader Nicolás Maduro push ahead with plans to create a non-elected “constituent assembly.”

Millions of Venezuelans from around the world voted against the socialist government’s plans to rewrite the country’s constitution on Sunday, as the country’s humanitarian crisis deepens.

Republican advocates of a California ballot initiative to repeal the state’s new gas tax will sue Attorney General Xavier Becerra over language he issued describing the measure, which they say is “misleading” to voters.

The largest opposition party in Turkey, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has officially launched a request for a recount of votes in Sunday’s referendum to expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s executive power.