Sentence examples similar to election plebiscite from inspiring English sources

Labor and the Greens have accused Abbott of resorting to the post-election plebiscite as a stalling tactic.

Outspoken marriage equality advocate Warren Entsch said he still expected that all the details of the post-election plebiscite would be known before voters went to the polls.

Last year Entsch suggested the parliament could vote on same-sex marriage during this term, with the result activated only after a successful post-election plebiscite.

Since the late nineties — the period in which Chavez has been in power — he has won, hands down, every single referendum and election and plebiscite he chose to muster, with the exception of one: a radical new constitution which failed at the polls two years ago.

The opposition has promised to turn the elections into plebiscites on Mr. Schröder's policies at time when he has suffered the swiftest decline in popularity of any postwar chancellor.

He was the prototype of the 20th-century totalitarian dictator: He wielded absolute power; created widespread networks of secret police and spies; controlled a massive government propaganda machine, aided by collaborating intellectuals, artists and authors; held phony elections and plebiscites; and engendered those never-ending conflicts.

During elections and plebiscites, a citizen can vote or not vote without any consequences from the government.

In Belarus, the right to vote in elections and plebiscites is extended to those who are above the age of eighteen.

Such talk seems to have turned the election into a plebiscite on the theocracy.

Bishop said the Coalition had gone to the election promising a plebiscite, and Labor and other senators should respect its mandate if the government was re-elected.

"The government is obviously turning the election into a plebiscite on the Kirchners, as a means to force a resolution of existing political conflicts," he said.