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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_Treaty_of_Lisbon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_Treaty_of_... Like when the Irish electora
by Y_Y 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_Treaty_of_Lisbon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_Treaty_of_...
Like when the Irish electorate rejected the Lisbon Treaty, and then was then harangued into accepting a reheated version. Opponents of the treaty reasonably asked if it could be best-of-three.
- messe 1y ago> and then was then harangued into accepting a reheated version After receiving concessions.
- rusk 1y agoImportantly around neutrality which was most people’s issue anyway. The real problem was that the referendum commission (the state body in charge of informing the public on these matters) was deemed “too neutral” and was forever after hobbled and since then we have had to vote in a veritable information vacuum.
- sunshine-o 1y agoThe Dutch and French also massively rejected the first version of this in 2005. Strangely they didn't bothered to ask the citizens the second time. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Dutch_European_Constitution_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Dutch_European_Constituti... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitution_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitut...
- extraduder_ire 1y agoCalling what would become the Lisbon treaty a "constitution" was always going to be a losing proposal.
- munksbeer 1y agoI'm failing to understand the problem here. The Irish rejected the proposed treaty, the took that rejection and the reasons, went back to rework it, and asked if the next version was suitable, and it was. That sounds exactly like you'd expect it to work, and yet people seem outraged by it. Why?