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Hlas-SD (S&D) is proposing a referendom to shorten the current 8th legislative period of the National Council. If this referendom would be to succeed (50% turnout (which might be lowered) and a majority saying yes), new elections would have to happen within 180 days. So, who ...
... supports it? Firstly, we have Hlas, which created the basic idea of a referendom taking place to shorten the current legislative period for the governments handling of covid and it's amateurism. Then we have Smer-SD (S&D) which will financially support the campaign by ...
... sending out envelopes with petitions to citizens. They estimate it to cost around 10 thousand euros, but said they will release exact cost at the end of the campaign. And finally we have SNS (ECR), which will, mainly through it's local structures try to collect enough ...
... signatures for the referandom. For the referendom to be declared, they need to collect 350k signatures, or President Čaputová declaring it, which is very unlikely. Before this lovestory of cooperation, Fico would call Pellegrini a traitor and Pellegrini would rule out ...
... cooperation with Smer. But for them to break these non-binding ''promises'' it makes a lot of sense. They are natural government partners and can gain a lot from the referendom, mainly a lot of publicity. And Fico would call out Pellegrini for acting like a ...
... ''political amateur'' for proposing the referendom, but Fico didn't take a stand against it, saying that there needs to be an apolitical committee taking care of the referendom. And, a committee already exists for it, composed by practically publically unknown people, the ...
... only politically engaged being Rober Bestro, member of Smer's youth organisation.
Pellegrini will absolutely be able to collect enough signatures, but will he be able to win it?
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Pellegrini will absolutely be able to collect enough signatures, but will he be able to win it?
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Slovakia had, until now, 8 referendoms, let's go through them:
1994: Referendom coming from an initiative of the Slovak Workers' Collective (left, member of gov't), asking about the showcasing of funds used during auctions and privatisation, it didn't pass because the ...
Slovakia had, until now, 8 referendoms, let's go through them:
1994: Referendom coming from an initiative of the Slovak Workers' Collective (left, member of gov't), asking about the showcasing of funds used during auctions and privatisation, it didn't pass because the ...
... turnout was only 20%.
1997: Failes referendom of President Kováč, with 4 questions, 1 being about the direct election of President of the Republic, and the other 3 about our membership in NATO, but, the then minister of the interior, Gustáv Krajčí (HZDS, authoritarian ...
1997: Failes referendom of President Kováč, with 4 questions, 1 being about the direct election of President of the Republic, and the other 3 about our membership in NATO, but, the then minister of the interior, Gustáv Krajčí (HZDS, authoritarian ...
... conservative) only printed ballots without the question about direct election of President. It didn't pass because the turnout was only 10%.
1998: Along with parliamentary elections, there was also a referendom, from HZDS' initiative, about privatisation of strategic ...
1998: Along with parliamentary elections, there was also a referendom, from HZDS' initiative, about privatisation of strategic ...
... state firms. It wasn't valid because it's turnout was 44%.
2000: Referendom proposed by HZDS and SNS to call on early elections and overthrow Dzurinda's gov't, was invalid because it had only 20% turnout.
2003: The only valid referendom in the history of Slovakia, one ...
2000: Referendom proposed by HZDS and SNS to call on early elections and overthrow Dzurinda's gov't, was invalid because it had only 20% turnout.
2003: The only valid referendom in the history of Slovakia, one ...
... about EU membership. It had a 52% turnout rate and 92% of voters voting for the accession.
2004: Another referendom to overthrow Dzurinda's 2nd gov't, called on by unions, supported by Smer, only a month before entry to the EU, was invalid because the turnout was 36%.
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2004: Another referendom to overthrow Dzurinda's 2nd gov't, called on by unions, supported by Smer, only a month before entry to the EU, was invalid because the turnout was 36%.
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2010: A referendom proposed by an initiative by SaS (ALDE, later ECR) to cut down the cost of politics, for example lower the number of MPs and set a limit on the purchase of gov't limousines, was invalid because the turnout was 23%.
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2010: A referendom proposed by an initiative by SaS (ALDE, later ECR) to cut down the cost of politics, for example lower the number of MPs and set a limit on the purchase of gov't limousines, was invalid because the turnout was 23%.
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2015: Our most current referendom, that was called on by the Alliance for Family. It's goal was to ban marriage equality. It was invalid because the turnout rate was 21%
2015: Our most current referendom, that was called on by the Alliance for Family. It's goal was to ban marriage equality. It was invalid because the turnout rate was 21%
Phew, this was quite something
