Sentence examples for consultative referenda from inspiring English sources

Referenda may be legislatively binding or merely consultative, but even consultative referenda are likely to be considered legislative mandates.

The two proposals can therefore be subject to consultative referenda in all the Member States so that our politicians can see what people want before they call an official Intergovernmental Conference for the purpose of making changes to existing treaties.

"The consultative referendum would say it all.

The coup was timed to prevent a consultative referendum scheduled for the same day.

To this end, he masterminded a constitution that allows a "consultative" referendum on matters of "national transcendence" at any time.

The leading textbook on Scottish constitutional law confirms the Scottish Government's long-held position that a consultative referendum is within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.

Meanwhile, the head of the electoral authority declared that he lacked the money to hold a consultative referendum (though that didn't stop Mr Chavez organising three of them).The hardliners then suddenly launched their own plan.

Brexit (a consultative referendum) means (voted for by a narrow majority) Brexit (that we should leave the EU without further parliamentary scrutiny or consideration of the implications or constitutional foundations of the vote).

Most of the country, it seems, has decided that it has had enough of Mr Chavez and four years of his "Bolivarian Revolution", a gaseous concoction of populist nationalism and presidential high-handedness.The strike was called because Mr Chavez blocked a consultative referendum on his rule (even though the opposition had gathered the requisite signatures for this) or an early election.

Instead he has forced the man who replaced him, Roberto Micheletti, into mistakes.Mr Micheletti took over with the backing of the army, the congress and the courts after Mr Zelaya defied all three by trying to organise a consultative referendum on changing the constitution, with the apparent aim of seeking a second term.

She wants a consultative referendum on the public financing of campaigns, the abolition of secret ballots in parliament, an overhaul of rules that govern political alliances and a new electoral system (the current one uses an open-list, proportional-representation model for the lower house).