At most it could have resulted in a binding referendum for a constitutional referendum on the same November ballot on which Zelaya would have been replaced.
Citizens Initiative Revieww (created in collaboration with Healthy Democracy Oregon and Jefferson Center) is a model institutionalized in the legislative process of the State of Oregon, where a citizens' initiative results in binding referendum after collecting a sufficient number of signatures.
And following Sunday's participatory process, I believe we have earned the right to a proper legally binding referendum, as in Scotland and Quebec, with all its consequences.
It comes days after Mr Salmond and the Prime Minister signed a deal which will deliver a legally binding referendum on independence in 2014, with David Cameron pledging to campaign to keep the United Kingdom "family" together.
He said he would send a letter on Monday to Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, urging him to confront "the Catalan question" with a formal, binding referendum on independence.
The panel is now faced with the task of whittling down the longlist of 40 to four designs that will be put to a public vote in a binding referendum in November or December.
The Catalan president, Artur Mas, will soon be taking the next logical step: a formal request for a binding referendum on the Scottish model.
Their real dreams were binding, EU-wide referendums or, failing that, Californian-style popular initiatives that could lead to binding referendums, recalls Alain Lamassoure, a French MEP behind the plans.
People supporting the changes have been canvassing Southeast with petitions in hand, seeking to invoke a little-known state law that says if signatures equal to 5percentt of the town's registered voters who cast ballots in the last gubernatorial election sign a petition, that is enough to require a binding referendum to be held by special election or during general elections.
