'plebiscite' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a direct vote by the people of a country or region on a specific issue, such as a change in government or a proposed law. Example: The government announced that a plebiscite would be held to decide on the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Reacting to the prospect of a referendum, Dijsselbloem said Greece did not have the time to conduct a plebiscite.
Kostas Chrysogonos, the prominent Syriza MEP, said a referendum may be the only way out, telling Mega TV that if the talks fail by the cutoff date of 11 May, a plebiscite should be immediately put to the Greek people.
At a special delegates' conference in Dublin yesterday, the junior coalition partner in the Irish government narrowly supported a yes vote in the forthcoming plebiscite.
Former independent MP Tony Windsor says the decision by a local group to run a plebiscite to choose an independent candidate for the Victorian seat of Morwell is clever, and has similarities with the seat of Indi, won in an upset by independent Cathy McGowan at the federal election.
With no sign of an imminent breakthrough, Hatzis thinks the young prime minister will almost certainly call a plebiscite in the coming weeks.
Unlike the Scottish referendum set for 2014 in agreement with London, the central government in Spain has pledged to block an independence vote for Catalonia by appealing to the constitutional court, which stopped the Basque country from holding a similar plebiscite in 2008.
In one sense, Berlin and Brussels' sudden conversion to a plebiscite is surprising.
Many believe his ideal would be to hold the plebiscite on the same day as the May elections next year.
And, some said, it was going to be a plebiscite.
Failing that – and it looks highly improbable – it needs a three-fifths, or 330-seat, majority, which would allow it to call a plebiscite on constitutional revision.
But if there were to be a further postponement of a plebiscite on Europe frustration could boil over with unpredictable results.
