He found that there was indeed a positive effect from the referendum on participation in the 2015 general election – the younger age group still participated less than average, but much more than in the past and more than their counterparts in England.
With almost all the precincts reporting, Ma-Siew have 58.46% of the vote and the two referenda have participation rates of just under 36%, not enough for them to be valid.
By 2020 the UK will have staged a referendum on its participation in the European project.
In the same speech, he reiterated the urging of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for a referendum, with the participation of all Palestinian refugees, to determine the status of the current Israeli state.
Hungary has filed a legal challenge against the proposal and will hold a referendum on its participation in the scheme on October 2. Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees trekked through Hungary and Austria in 2015 as they sought to reach wealthy European nations.
The Eurosceptic Tory MEP Daniel Hannan said: "I support this challenge for all sides to push for a high-participation referendum.
"We have more democracy than before," says Andrés Izarra, the information minister, pointing to referendums and community participation in budgets.Certainly Venezuela still has many of democracy's outward trappings.
The EU referendum result throws UK participation in Horizon 2020 into doubt.
It would also, after the example of the Scottish referendum campaign, involve wider participation.
Mr. Orban, who has frequently railed against the European Union, initiated a referendum last autumn to reject participation in the bloc's plan to require its 28 member countries to accept a fair share of the refugees and asylum seekers trying to enter the Continent; the turnout was too low for a valid result.
