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He's right. A referendum is always called against a law enacted by parliament. What you are referring to is called an initiative. Those are popular requests t
by CaptainZapp 13y ago
He's right.
A referendum is always called against a law enacted by parliament.
What you are referring to is called an initiative. Those are popular requests to change the constitution to (for example) allow same sex marriage.
even though the outcome may be the same (a popular vote) the mechanisms are quite different. (In German: Referendum vs Verfassungsinitiative).
A referendum on federal level requires 50'000 valid signatures, an initiative double as much.
- jwilliams 13y agoI was just using the term you used in your first post - which seemed representative enough for me. If your point was to argue that mechanism can't be used (but another can) then that seems unusually specific/technical.