After parliament rejected legislation to allow the plebiscite, his answer was to hold a plebiscite by another name: the "Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey", which Australians have just completed.
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November 14, 1993 - Commonwealth status is upheld via a plebiscite.
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The accord was narrowly rejected in a plebiscite in October.
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Colombians rejected the original agreement in a plebiscite in October.
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There would be little time to organise a new plebiscite.
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A Conservative resurgence is the latest effect of that plebiscite.
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But conservatives in his party had pushed for a plebiscite.
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It's the same banner that worked successfully in the plebiscite.
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The country voted to leave the EU in a 2016 plebiscite.
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Many outsiders will expect Mr Santos to call a fresh plebiscite.
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A plebiscite vote regarding the deal will be held in October.
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The country will then vote on its proposals in a plebiscite.
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It will now go to a plebiscite vote on Oct. 2.
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Supporters of the peace deal were stunned by the plebiscite result.
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Liberals cheered when an Irish plebiscite legalised gay marriage in 2015.
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Dutch Eurosceptics have forced a plebiscite on whether to ratify it.
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This postal plebiscite has big question marks around its legal validity.
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Elected officials should govern, they felt, not the people by plebiscite.
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Colombians will have the last word during an Oct. 2. plebiscite.
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The path toward a second plebiscite has always seemed impossibly treacherous.
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Governing by plebiscite is already fairly common in the United States.
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November 20193, 2012 - Puerto Ricans vote for statehood via a status plebiscite.
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Mr Shorten says a plebiscite would represent a "fundamental failure" of parliament.
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This is no moment to contemplate any sort of plebiscite with equanimity.
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That democratic plebiscite was put down by the freaking European Central Bank.
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On Tuesday, Cormann confirmed the plebiscite would be held on November 25.
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The strike vote would take place after a nationwide plebiscite on Oct.
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Some Democrats see the H.B. 22019 plebiscite compromise as a deal-killer.
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One poll suggests the government would win a plebiscite on any agreement.
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The plebiscite set off a short-lived declaration of independence in Catalonia.
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Catalan government treated a regional election as a plebiscite on the secession
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First, this plebiscite does nothing to remedy the island's dire economic situation.
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The 2016 plebiscite attracted many who felt forgotten by the political establishment.
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No referendum Santos made clear that the government wanted to avoid another plebiscite.
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Short of an unlikely compromise with the government, that will kill the plebiscite.
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With the cost to fund a plebiscite, you could buy 311,284,046 chicken nuggets.
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The UN suggested they both pull back their troops and hold a plebiscite.
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Five years later, to secure an (unconstitutional) second term, he organised a plebiscite.
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Despite heavy opposition, the plebiscite looks to be slated for a February vote.
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She's here to vote Sí in the plebiscite for the FARC peace accords.
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But authorities blocked their attempt to oust Maduro via a plebiscite last year.
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Any deal will be put to Colombians for approval in a plebiscite vote.
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The United Nations Security Council had warned Kurdish authorities against holding the plebiscite.
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Neither plebiscite was binding, and an opposition boycott diminished the 2017 vote's credibility.
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The truth is, whichever way the residents vote, the plebiscite is largely ceremonial.
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Since the plebiscite, Venezuela's opposition has taken steps toward establishing a parallel government.
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Opponents of the plebiscite have pushed for a vote in parliament on legalising marriage equality, but the current Liberal Party federal government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull narrowly won power in July promising to have a plebiscite on the matter.
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A poll last month showed that only 39% of Australians backed holding a plebiscite.
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On October 11th, Labor parliamentarians decided they, too, would vote against the plebiscite bill.
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The Constitutional Court had declared the plebiscite, and a subsequent declaration of independence, illegal.
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When that parliamentary vote fails, she will be justified in proposing a new plebiscite.
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A second plebiscite, on expanding the autonomous region, will be held on February 6th.
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Foes of the accord narrowly defeated a first version in a plebiscite last year.
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Is a $160m plebiscite necessary & what impact do you think the debate will have?
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At least 50 percent turnout in the plebiscite was required to legitimize the result.
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Colombians will be the judge of this compromise, in a plebiscite on October 2nd.
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The vote was only the third time a UK-wide plebiscite had been called.
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The governor of Puerto Rico has just signed a law calling for another plebiscite.
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Opinion polls suggest that the vote in the plebiscite will be close (see article).
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He said he would back a plebiscite of local residents to settle the issue.
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The MUD has worked well as an electoral coalition, and its plebiscite was impressive.
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In 2014, Congress passed a law to sanction a plebiscite on Puerto Rico's status.
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"They didn't want to mix the voters' displeasure with the plebiscite," said de Jesús.
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"We cannot afford it," she said, referring to the likely cost of the plebiscite.
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But many in Parliament think that the bill calling for a plebiscite is doomed.
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And when the plebiscite got read out I was kind of disappointed by it.
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The opposition Labour Party now says it would potentially support some form of plebiscite.
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May's deal and there was not then a general election, another plebiscite seemed inevitable.
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Even without a plebiscite about the euro, Italy might become almost impossible to govern.
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The original ceasefire was nullified when the peace accord was rejected in the plebiscite.
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New policy measures are yet to be decided and could be put to a plebiscite.
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George Williams, a constitutional lawyer, believes calling a plebiscite has "tied the issue in knots".
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Societies that respect the rule of law do not decide by plebiscite whether to prosecute.
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But the conservative Australian government refuses to budge from their preferred method of the plebiscite.
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But as a delaying tactic Tony Abbott, Mr Turnbull's predecessor, proposed a non-binding plebiscite.
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No date has yet been set, but the plebiscite should take place later this year.
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Several independent MPs had already ruled out supporting the national plebiscite on same-sex marriage.
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The fate of Calgary's bid will be decided by a non-binding plebiscite on Nov.
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Mr Santos plans to raise taxes, but not until after the plebiscite is safely over.
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Unlike the plebiscite, the postal vote is voluntary and doesn't require legislation to go ahead.
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The pro-statehood government of Puerto Rico held a statehood plebiscite on June 11, 2017.
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Sunday's plebiscite was the fifth taken since the United States acquired Puerto Rico in 1898.
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Colombian voters had narrowly rejected an earlier version of the accord in a plebiscite in October.
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After parliament reconvened from a short break this week, the plebiscite plan faced being derailed. Why?
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"Our preference is to have a compulsory attendance plebiscite," Cormann told reporters in Canberra, Australia's capital.
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Polls show most Venezuelans want a plebiscite and that Maduro would lose if it went ahead.
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The Senate, where Mr Turnbull's government lacks a majority, rejected a bill to hold a plebiscite.
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Expecting it to boost support for independence, she has called for a second plebiscite on secession.
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According to the state broadcaster ABC, the plebiscite is expected to cost $160 million in total.
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Since then, Hungarian authorities have proved reluctant to let others use the power of a plebiscite.
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It's a plebiscite, not an official ruling, in which the terms and conditions are often hazy.
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Now he will ask congress to convoke a plebiscite on October 1003nd to seek voters' approval.
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Experts say this clause could be changed by Congress to open the door to a plebiscite.
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The government had intended to hold a compulsory national vote, or plebiscite, in February this year.
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A cross-party, cross-denominational convention thereafter should be convened and the constitution confirmed by plebiscite.
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"Do not be afraid of holding a plebiscite," said opposition deputy Luis Stefanelli during parliamentary debate.
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But the policy issues that could be put to a plebiscite are yet to be decided.
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The plebiscite was also tainted by disagreement with the Department of Justice over its federal validity.
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It was through a plebiscite that the Chilean opposition defeated the dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988.
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"The consultation isn't a vote, it isn't a veto or a plebiscite, it's a dialogue," she said.
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Less than a week later, on October 2973nd, Colombian voters rejected the peace deal in a plebiscite.
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Lachlan won't be sad to see the back of the plebiscite, saying it is an 'unnecessary evil'.
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Even if the fawning Congress produces a new constitution, a plebiscite will be needed to approve it.
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This will be the fifth status plebiscite since the Puerto Rican legislature began conducting these electoral events.
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The United States, the United Kingdom and the UN Security Council also spoke out against the plebiscite.
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But he said he had no plans to vote in the plebiscite or to join any protests.
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Monday's vote has become a plebiscite on Benjamin Netanyahu, who was indicted on corruption charges in November.
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Formally, the plebiscite puts to voters a set of constitutional changes that make a lot of sense.
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The marquee plan by the current administration was to forge ahead in June with a statehood plebiscite.
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Before the plebiscite, the government negotiators said they had reached the best agreement possible with the FARC.
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The Australian Christian Lobby said it was happy with the Labor Party's decision to block a plebiscite.
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Labor, which wants a vote on the issue in parliament, has garnered enough support to block the plebiscite.
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A bill that would have allowed for a plebiscite on gay marriage in Australia was blocked in Parliament.
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House elections should be a modest check on the power of a runaway legislature, not a perpetual plebiscite.
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Any opposition by the PPD to a "statehood or independence" status plebiscite must be understood in this context.
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While the resolution does not explicitly call for a referendum, it "reaffirms" previous resolutions calling for a plebiscite.
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In a 1993 plebiscite in Dutch Curaçao, for example, only 0.49% of the population voted for absolute independence.
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Competing arguments The government had intended to hold a compulsory national vote, or plebiscite, in February this year.
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The FARC have accepted the government's plan to ratify the peace deal in a plebiscite, perhaps in October.
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Others argue that a plebiscite should only take place to approve any new document that has been drafted.
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On Thursday, Baghdad spurned Kurdistan's offer to "freeze" the results of referendum, insisting the plebiscite be cancelled outright.
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The fact that they don't suggests a backhanded recognition that they fear the results of such a plebiscite.
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A vast majority of Hungarians rejected the idea of quotas though a low turnout rendered the plebiscite invalid.
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The EU referendum is not a general election; it is just the third nationwide plebiscite Britain has held.
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Pro-Europeans, by contrast, would like a plebiscite on the specific terms of any deal negotiated by Mrs.
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Ricardo A. Rosselló said he would soon head to the capital with the plebiscite results to demand action.
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A credible opposition plebiscite on July 16 garnered more than 85033 million votes that rejected the constituent assembly.
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Austria's president can be removed both through a special national vote (plebiscite) and via the country's constitutional court.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull proposed the plebiscite, but it has met with resistance from the opposition Labor Party.
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In this context, the June 11, 2017 plebiscite ratifying the 2012 plebiscite favoring statehood, should be understood as a petition by the people of Puerto Rico that our current territorial status and its lack of economic development needs to be addressed by Congress, the sooner the better for all concerned.
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He said the plebiscite, the first of its kind in Europe, would be a major test of European democracy.
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The western Canadian city, which hosted the Olympics in 1988, will now hold a non-binding plebiscite on Nov.
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The plebiscite is expected to be held in September or October ahead of parliamentary elections later in the year.
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In addition, parliament is discussing having legislation ready to push through as soon as the plebiscite results are in.
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He hatched the plebiscite policy last year as a compromise, amid wrangles on the issue among the coalition parties.
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Bill Shorten, Labor's leader, says a plebiscite would denote a "fundamental failure of this parliament to do its job".
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After the plebiscite support for the Conservatives among over-65s rose from 47% to 56%, according to Ipsos-MORI.
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The plebiscite for the train was still almost two weeks away, making the vote something of a moot point.
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Unlike Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian leader, who backed union with Bosnian Serbs, Mr Vucic opposed this week's plebiscite.
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Charlotte would never have started the fight, they say, if its ordinance had faced the threat of a plebiscite.
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With a sunset, a council race can serve as a substitute for a plebiscite on an NDO, though indirectly.
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He was unable to get funding to hold the plebiscite after legislation was blocked twice in the Australian senate.
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The plebiscite was considered nonbinding, as the Department of Justice requested changes to the ballots initially presented by Rosselló.
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In the plebiscite, 97 percent of voters picked statehood, but only 23 percent of voters went to the polls.
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Devouring precious resources on a plebiscite while the government is literally in bankruptcy court is the height of folly.
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It may be that the Nobel committee at first presumed, like most everyone else, that the plebiscite on Oct.
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It is unclear whether the government intends to hold a new plebiscite or simply have Congress approve the agreement.
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When Britons voted in June to leave the European Union, they did so by plebiscite, not by parliamentary ballot.
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Luckily for the media, America's press laws are generally not left up to plebiscite or legislation, but the courts.
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Yet, without that, it will be hard to get a majority of lawmakers to agree to hold a plebiscite.
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"The plebiscite laid everything out in black and white and now we're stuck in a grey area," he said.
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The elections to the European Parliament, in May 2019, will be a de facto plebiscite on the European Union.
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But Brian Houston, senior pastor of Hillsong Church, did speak out about the 2017 Australian same-sex marriage plebiscite.
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"You might as well call a nationwide plebiscite to decide whether Einstein got his algebra right," Mr. Dawkins wrote.
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They chanted demands for the legislature to hold public hearings on the issue, and some called for a plebiscite.
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Mr. Grillo has indicated that if the plebiscite fails, he wants to hold a referendum on dropping the euro.
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The deal, hammered out over almost four years of negotiations, was narrowly rejected in a plebiscite vote this month.
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Ms. Sturgeon's call may be understandable, but another plebiscite before Britain concludes the Brexit process would not be prudent.
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Gutierrez has already introduced a bill in Congress to promote the island's independence through a plebiscite that excludes statehood.
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Those of us opposed to the plebiscite believe that not all democratic principles can be put to popular vote.
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Later, he said he would submit an amendment to Hungary's constitution to put the result of the plebiscite into law.
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But political rancour has held back change: many gay-marriage supporters and politicians want parliament to decide without a plebiscite.
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Issues such as how the same-sex marriage plebiscite is handled will now be even more incendiary within the party.
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When Australia held a plebiscite on same-sex marriage in 2017, the Coalition for Marriage warned people about "gender-bending".
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Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected the EU-Ukraine association treaty, which was strongly opposed by Russia, in the plebiscite last April.
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"We will be going to the election promising a plebiscite before the end of the year," Brandis told Sky News.
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Turnbull said Tuesday if Parliament rejected the plebiscite a voluntary national postal vote would be held instead without parliamentary approval.
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Even gay folks worry they might get targeted again, as they were with North Carolina's Amendment One gay marriage plebiscite.
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The Australian government introduced a bill to hold a non-binding plebiscite on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised.
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Shortly after the plebiscite, Baghdad closed the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) international airspace as part of a series of measures.
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Polls suggest that in the plebiscite the agreement will probably be ratified by a margin of around two to one.
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According to Reuters, the results from the plebiscite were as follows: 50.21 percent for "no" to 49.78 percent for "yes".
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A government website for the non-binding referendum, Puerto Rico's fifth such plebiscite since 1967, showed 97 percent supported statehood.
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Rousseff has offered a constitutional way out of the political crisis: a plebiscite on whether to hold early presidential elections.
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"A plebiscite is the wrong path to achieve marriage equality," Mr. Shorten said at a news conference after the caucus.
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"We know a plebiscite is divisive," Penny Wong, a senator from the Labor Party, said on Monday during the debate.
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The new governor was committed to conduct a new plebiscite on June 11 — Sunday — that would ratify the previous one.
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The postal plebiscite for gay marriage has already been answered by nearly 60 percent of eligible Australians, far surpassing expectations.
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So it would be ridiculous to put this question to a plebiscite in which all people enjoy equal voting rights.
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This month, Puerto Rico is holding a plebiscite on its status, and I hope Congress will listen to the results.
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This is because normally at least 50 percent of the electorate have to vote for the plebiscite to be valid.
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They then fraudulently approved a transitory constitution and an act calling for an illegal plebiscite on a plan for secession.
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He abstained during the recent parliamentary vote which allowed same-sex marriage, a change that was overwhelmingly supported in a plebiscite.
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Mr Johnson may frame an election as a plebiscite on Brexit, but it will be voters who decide which topics matter.
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Both he and Albert Rivera, the leader of Ciudadanos, have tried to turn the election into a plebiscite on Mr Sánchez.
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A fortnight earlier the opposition had got more than 22.4m to vote to reject the new assembly in an unofficial plebiscite.
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Turnbull has said that if Parliament rejected the plebiscite, a voluntary national postal vote would be held instead without parliamentary approval.
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Puigdemont and fellow separatists have all denied any wrongdoing, saying the plebiscite gave them the authority to break away from Spain.
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LGBTI people didn't ask for this plebiscite but now the court has determined (it) will go ahead ... Vote yes for love.
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On the eve of the plebiscite the Calgary Tower, normally only lit for Canadian gold medals during the Olympics, shone brightly.
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The idea of a plebiscite is supported by a majority in the region, polls show, even by some who oppose secession.
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At just two weeks' notice, on July 240th almost 22015m Venezuelans turned out for an unofficial plebiscite organised by the opposition.
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The jailings "turn the election into a plebiscite on the central government," wrote Enric Juliana in La Vanguardia, a Barcelona newspaper.
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To hold the plebiscite, the government needed money and to get that money it need to pass legislation through Australia's parliament.
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" Middle England did not treat this as a referendum on European Union membership but as a plebiscite on one thing: "immigration.
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That was amply demonstrated in the 2628 plebiscite when statehood only received 28503% of all the votes cast in the polls.
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"This mass casualty bombing occurred despite martial law and during a high security environment (in place for the plebiscite)," he said.
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Those that question the validity of these plebiscites should put aside their obstructionist tactics and agree to a congressionally mandated plebiscite.
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Both the Popular Democratic Party and the Independence Party refused to participate in the plebiscite and opted instead to boycott it.
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Experts say it is unlikely that legislation supporting a national plebiscite (or same-sex marriage) will pass the Senate this week.
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"Really, this plebiscite is no more than a glorified opinion poll — a 122-million-dollar opinion poll," a Melbourne professor said.
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Following the October plebiscite, the peace process was in a dangerous limbo, even though a bilateral cease-fire was already underway.
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It is likely that many Yes voters opted for Labour this time around but would still lean towards independence in any plebiscite.
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Shorten has previously promised to hold a plebiscite to gauge support for Australia becoming a republic with its own head of state.
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In a plebiscite voters rejected a proposal by Augusto Pinochet, who had taken power 15 years before, to extend his dictatorial rule.
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Penny Wong, Labor's shadow foreign-affairs minister, says there is "disappointing evidence" that some will use "hurtful" arguments in a plebiscite campaign.
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But he believes Mr Turnbull has little choice but to proceed with the plebiscite his party promised during the recent election campaign.
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Labor held the strings to decide whether legislation to set up the plebiscite passed the Senate, where the government lacks a majority.
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Whether or not the government holds another plebiscite on a revised agreement, it is clear that peace requires a broader political accord.
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After Colombian voters rejected it in a plebiscite on October 2nd the government and the FARC went back to the negotiating table.
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The government wanted to hold the national plebiscite, similar to a referendum, next February, at a cost of about US$120 million.
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However, one of Australia's most prominent gay politicians supports rejecting the plebiscite and is prepared to wait for gay marriage in Australia.
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Co-chair of Australians for Equality, Anna Brown said the campaign is a fresh break from the negative impact of controversial plebiscite.
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Much of the organization, including volunteer recruitment, happened via social media and WhatsApp groups during the weeks leading up to the plebiscite.
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Just over one year later, in October 2016, the legislation for the plebiscite was blocked in Parliament by the opposition Labor party.
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He would seek a plebiscite in 2018 to rewrite the dictatorship-era constitution to include more protections for workers and indigenous communities.
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It was a project considered shelved nearly three years ago after Scotland voted to remain in the UK in its own plebiscite.
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He said he expects it will be difficult to get his job back, regardless of how the country votes in the plebiscite.
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Mr. Shorten, who once favored a plebiscite, wants Parliament to vote on the issue, which he says has wide support among Australians.
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In 28503, a status plebiscite was held on the same day of the general election, with a voter participation of 22019 percent.
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Correction: This article previously stated that the FARC will start putting their weapons "beyond use" only after a plebiscite later this year.
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"The best way to proceed is via Congress, with participation from citizens, and then, to submit it to a plebiscite," Blumel said.
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But the plebiscite would not have been binding, and there was no guarantee that Mr. Turnbull's colleagues would have supported the outcome.
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Puerto Rican voters overwhelmingly chose statehood in a plebiscite Sunday, but low participation rates and lack of federal support marred its credibility.
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Even if there was another plebiscite, the surveys show Britons are still deeply divided and most would probably vote the same way.
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Such a plebiscite would be unprecedented, and could move forward only through a constitutional amendment, which would require the support of Congress.
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Like it or not, this election is a plebiscite on the most divisive, polarizing and disrupting figure in American politics in decades.
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Analysts say outright independence still lacks widespread support in Taiwan — and crucially in Washington — and such a plebiscite is unlikely anytime soon.
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It followed nearly four months of violent street protests, an unofficial plebiscite against him last weekend and a national strike on Thursday.
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But since Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Gantz both back the proposal, the election has instead become a plebiscite on Mr. Netanyahu himself.
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Although the United Nations called in for a plebiscite to determine which country Kashmir should join, no vote has ever taken place.
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In fact, a majority of the senators agreed with Mr. Renzi's reforms, and they seemed likely to be approved in the plebiscite.
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The original ceasefire, which was put in place in August, was nullified when the peace accord was rejected in plebiscite earlier this month.
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Following Brexit, equity markets across the globe fell sharply as investors were unprepared for the June plebiscite result, before kicking off a rally.
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" She called the plans for a plebiscite after the next election, which is estimated to cost $160 million, a "complete waste of time.
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There were fewer billboards celebrating the referendum, reflecting resentment that a yes vote could be seen as a plebiscite for the Kurdish leader.
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Mrs May and Britain's Parliament, the consent of which is needed for another plebiscite, must not deny the Scottish people a second vote.
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Australian Marriage Equality director Tiernan Brady said the rejection of the plebiscite was the will of the majority of gay and lesbian Australians.
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A plebiscite result has no legal standing, and the act could be changed by the federal parliament without a test of public opinion.
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"We need your help," said Santos, who signed a modified peace deal in November after a previous pact was rejected in a plebiscite.
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Politically, if not legally, it can only come into effect if it is ratified by Colombian voters in a plebiscite on October 0003nd.
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The plebiscite was held despite objections from the United States and Turkey, a regional power whose ties with Israel have long been troubled.
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It is time for Parliament to reassert its political authority, which was left aground after the rare plebiscite in June 2016 on Brexit.
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The plebiscite was his idea to begin with, back when it seemed like a clever way of easing pressure on the peace talks.
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Politically, however, it would be almost impossible to overlook the outcome of the first plebiscite on Britain's place in Europe in 41 years.
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Mr Turnbull, a gay-marriage supporter, said then that instead of going to the expense of holding a national plebiscite, parliament should vote.
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The opposition managed to set up voting stations for its plebiscite there: at one, a woman died when a colectivo fired on voters.
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There are fears the plebiscite, which is yet to win the support of the opposition Labor party, could stir up anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
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Following the 2012 plebiscite, opponents of statehood argued that participation had not been high enough to reflect the true will of the people.
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Congress ignored the results of the last status plebiscite, and I suspect it will do the same this time, regardless of the outcome.
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Although the Greens and Labor support legalizing same-sex marriage, they oppose holding a plebiscite, calling it a possible platform for hate speech.
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Polls show around 70 percent of Australians want marriage equality, and many supporters of legalization want action in Parliament, not a nonbinding plebiscite.
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The non-binding plebiscite is not expected to sway the U.S. Congress, which would have to agree to make Puerto Rico a state.
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That would probably become a plebiscite on Brexit, something the prime minister has promised to deliver by October 31st, deal or no deal.
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If he loses the plebiscite and steps down, as he has vowed to do, the European Union would be badly damaged as well.
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"I reiterate to you my commitment to fight until we conquer freedom," he said, pointing out the plebiscite voting day on July 16.
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The government has not addressed holding a second plebiscite to approve the deal, though some opposition figures were already demanding one via Twitter.
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A plebiscite on the issue last year returned overwhelming support — 77.5 percent of ballots were in favor of retail beer and wine sales.
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"That 160 million dollars that you are willing to waste on a pointless plebiscite is totally unnecessary," Mills said, reading a pre-written letter.
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Mr Santos has called the bluff of the No campaigners in the plebiscite who claimed they wanted peace, but not on the previous terms.
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Penny Wong, Labor's openly gay shadow foreign-affairs minister, sees "disappointing evidence" that "hurtful arguments" against gay marriage would surface in a plebiscite campaign.
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"The Canadian Olympic Committee respects the results of tonight's plebiscite in Calgary, but we are disappointed with the outcome," COC said in the statement.
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"The way this plebiscite has come together is from the outside in," Eudoro Gonzalez, an opposition congressman, told BuzzFeed News by phone from Caracas.
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The rejection by the center-left Labor party, which wants same-sex marriages legalized by parliament, ended any hope the plebiscite bill could pass.
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" Seekers of dignity get loose with language, though, when they say that the H.B. 186 plebiscite compromise would let voters take away people's "rights.
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The July 16 plebiscite will pose questions on the level of confidence in Maduro and seek public input on his rewriting of Venezuela's constitution.
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But now he has stuck to Mr Abbott's proposal of a plebiscite to gauge public opinion, and to hold it after the next election.
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Mr Abbott, Mr Turnbull's predecessor, opposed gay marriage, but was grudgingly planning a plebiscite on it; polls showed a large majority would vote yes.
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Protesters are largely unanimous in their demand for a plebiscite on replacing the constitution, which, once approved, should be drafted by a people's assembly.
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Earlier this year the Commonwealth government enacted a law for a non-binding plebiscite on the status of Puerto Rico on June 2628, 28503.
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SYDNEY, Australia — A bill that would have allowed a national plebiscite on legalizing same-sex marriage in Australia was defeated in Parliament on Monday.
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Mr. Santos, who days before the plebiscite had displayed confidence that bordered on cockiness, responded to the electoral setback in early October with humility.
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The April 22 plebiscite had already been scheduled as a vote on other, less consequential constitutional amendments that Mr. Putin introduced earlier this year.
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"There are too many unanswered questions and an incredible amount of risk," the councilor, Evan Woolley, said at a public debate on the plebiscite.
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Then, just like now, war seemed possible, and the United Nations, which has long urged a plebiscite in Kashmir, seemed unable to stop it.
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Yet the plebiscite on a set of constitutional changes in Italy on Sunday may be a momentous day for Europe and the European Union.
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Notwithstanding the continuing lobbying efforts by the PPD in Washington, this latest plebiscite marks a paradigm shift on the status question for Puerto Rico.
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The coming months will be crucial for the remaining bids, with Calgary having set a non-binding plebiscite on the Games for Nov. 13.
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"The next elections will be a plebiscite — the population and real life against old political castes and the 'lords of the spread'," he said.
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Opposition groups have called the plebiscite after months of protests, saying Venezuelans should have their say on President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution.
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On Monday, Labour said it would back calls for a second plebiscite on Brexit if lawmakers rejected its alternative plan for leaving the European Union.
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A plebiscite is a vote by the people, but the government can choose to do what they like with the result — it is not binding.
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But after wrangles within the conservative Liberal-National coalition, he had offered a plebiscite (as non-binding referendums are called in Australia) as a compromise.
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If the plebiscite passes, he pledges that the federal parliament would legislate to amend the Marriage Act to allow gay people to wed their partners.
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Opposition groups and activists widely accused Tsipras of ignoring the results of that plebiscite when he agreed to even harsher austerity measures a month later.
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But to win the support of conservative MPs for his campaign to supplant Mr Abbott two years ago, he accepted the idea of a plebiscite.
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Australia is the latest country to go through these motions: on November 15th a majority of voters supported gay marriage in a non-binding plebiscite.
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The government wants a plebiscite (as it has promised) whereas the FARC seeks a constitutional change (which would make the FARC's struggle look more legitimate).
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Even before the plebiscite, the FARC's 6,500 troops and 8,500 militia will gather in 23 designated zones and begin handing their weapons to UN observers.
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After issuing multiple condemnations in the run-up to the plebiscite, the Iraqi Parliament voted Monday to authorize the use of force against Iraqi Kurdistan.
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"Children do not need to go to school in the climate of a plebiscite and have the integrity of their parents' relationship challenged," he said.
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As a consequence, the political environment during the plebiscite campaign was marked by severe polarization and distrust fanned by threatening rumors spread through social networks.
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Rosselló went ahead with the original June 11 date, giving an opening to opposition parties who favor commonwealth status or independence to boycott the plebiscite.
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The plebiscite on the peace agreement had just concluded; among 13 million voters, No had prevailed by almost 54,000 votes, 50.2 percent to 0003 percent.
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Therefore, it is up to Congress to consider the results of Sunday's plebiscite and do the right thing for the American citizens in Puerto Rico.
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A map of the plebiscite result created by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation clearly shows an urban-suburban divide when it comes to Portage and Main.
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The legislation would also be part of the package of constitutional amendments to be voted on in a previously scheduled nationwide plebiscite on April 22.
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"The Canadian Olympic Committee respects the results of tonight's plebiscite in Calgary, but we are disappointed with the outcome," the organization said in the statement.
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Spain's main parties have consistently refused to hold a plebiscite on secession, although Sanchez's Socialists have said they are open to dialog on other issues.
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For Mr. Farage, the overriding mission of UKIP was to force the Cameron government to hold a plebiscite on Britain's membership in the European Union.
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"We're not going to stop thinking what we think, ideals can't be derailed by (jail) sentences," he said, asserting that a new plebiscite was "inevitable".
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But rather than calling for free and transparent presidential elections, he was undemocratically re-elected after holding a plebiscite on his administration late in 1957.
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It fears that a plebiscite may one day be used to assess whether the public wants the island to renounce its notional links with the mainland.
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The original 30 second ad featured three mothers concerned about sex education in school and linking it to the upcoming postal plebiscite on same sex marriage.
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But Labor party leader Bill Shorten said on Wednesday he was "gravely concerned" about the plebiscite, giving his strongest hint yet his party would block it.
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Australia should use use the money it plans to spend on a marriage equality plebiscite for more useful public services, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told CNBC.
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If the complex process of drafting and ratifying the Constitution is to be given an abstract label, it seems closer to a plebiscite than a coup.
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Mr Santos has promised a plebiscite on the final agreement; a bill in Congress would cut the turnout required from 50% to 13% of the electorate.
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Catalonia has been in political limbo since Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took over its regional government after it unilaterally declared independence following the October plebiscite.
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So although many will be fixated on the outcome of the June 11 plebiscite, we should be aware that the main attraction is on Capitol Hill.
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Colombian voters narrowly rejected that agreement in a plebiscite early this month, many of them swayed by a hyperbolic and misleading campaign led by Mr. Uribe.
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The plebiscite is a "platform for prejudice and a megaphone for hate speech," Bill Shorten, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, told Parliament on Monday.
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MOSCOW — Last month, Vladimir V. Putin was re-elected as Russia's president in a plebiscite-like ceremony with all other candidates essentially decorating the ballot's margins.
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Instead, presidential elections evolved into a single winner-take-all national plebiscite election, with two major parties competing for what was frequently a very narrow majority.
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There's no need to wait for a plebiscite every other decade — and no compelling reason now for a costly convention with dubious prospects for essential change.
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Some of these disputes led to military conflict (between Czechs and Poles over the border town of Tesin/Cieszyn, for example); others were settled by plebiscite.
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A greater percentage may do so Sunday, in the first plebiscite ever limited to options that have been determined under U.S. law to be legally viable.
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A June plebiscite to decide the territory's status was won overwhelmingly by those backing statehood, but opponents of the idea boycotted the election, marring its credibility.
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If a referendum is recommended, a vote would then be needed in parliament to set one up, potentially paving the way for a plebiscite in 2018.
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Early advocates of a second Brexit referendum may take solace in the fact that such a plebiscite is now firmly part of the Labour party's platform.
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The plebiscite is a *non-binding* vote on legalising marriage equality in the country, which means it cannot progress into law unless agreed upon by Australia's parliament.
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Colombians rejected in a plebiscite an agreement negotiated by the country's president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the leftist FARC guerrilla army to end a 52-year war.
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By the same token, he used to argue that parliament should legalise gay marriage; now he wants to hold a plebiscite first, just as Mr Abbott proposed.
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Both the government and the FARC have observed a ceasefire during the limbo that followed the plebiscite, but the government fears that it will not hold forever.
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John O'Doherty, director of The Rainbow Project, believes that such a plebiscite could open old wounds, with votes being cast according to orange and green party lines.
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Instead, the plebiscite would spark a long-drawn debate on marriage equality that would be detrimental to the psychological well-being of the gay community, he said.
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Despite the Australian government's plans to attempt to pass the plebiscite legislation, there's no indication it has any more support than when it failed in October 2016.
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The bill to fund the plebiscite was always unlikely to pass the Australian Senate on its second attempt due to continued opposition from a range of parties.
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Our current political and economic dead end can only be seriously addressed with a plebiscite "statehood or independence" under the auspices of Federal Public Law 113-76.
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Despite the reported cost of the plebiscite (estimated at almost A$160 million), a vote in parliament to formally change the Marriage Act will still be necessary.
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A non-binding nationwide yes or no vote, the plebiscite is being criticised as a wasteful exercise that could stir up hate speech against the LGBTQ community.
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A "No" vote in the plebiscite would be a "political mandate to renegotiate the deal", says Carlos Holmes Trujillo, a leader of Mr Uribe's Centro Democrático party.
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Ward 11 councilor Jeromy Farkas told CTV News he is against a bid, but would not override the result of the plebiscite and will honor Calgarians' decision.
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Rosselló's administration made changes suggested by the DOJ, but refused to change the date of the plebiscite to allow the feds time to review the new ballot.
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"This country does not have the right, in a plebiscite, to pass judgment on the marriages and relationships of some of our fellow Australians," Mr. Shorten said.
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The plebiscite, which would have cost about $140 million, would have asked Australians if the Marriage Act should be revised to allow same-sex couples to marry.
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Luke Cody: It was the day of the plebiscite [in Venezuela] and I spent the day taking photographs at a voting station in Chacao, an opposition stronghold.
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The two sides had been making progress in talks to reunite Cyprus as a bizonal, bicommunal federation, but the plebiscite row underscored how fragile any progress is.
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When Tony Blair, a former prime minister, called last month for another plebiscite, Brexit supporters derided him as a pillar of a failed, elitist, pro-European establishment.
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Representative democracy then yields by degrees to a system driven by plebiscite, referendums, intimidation and lies — of the kind that produced the victories of Brexit and Trump.
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In this regard, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez's proposed bill on a federally-mandated plebiscite "Statehood, yes or no" is a step in the right and necessary direction.
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The Scottish Parliament voted last month in favor of holding another referendum on independence, but a binding plebiscite cannot take place without permission from the British government.
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President Juan Manuel Santos hopes to unite the divided nation behind the new deal after the peace process was endangered by its rejection in the October plebiscite.
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The aftermath of the plebiscite was a great example of both 'camps' attacking each other mercilessly, while at the same time speaking in the name of peace.
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"If the plebiscite is not approved we will return to war, not to a negotiations table," he said during a meeting of the World Economic Forum last week.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the Kurdistan region's planned referendum on independence as "unconstitutional" on Tuesday, hours after parliament voted against the regional plebiscite.
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In Australia, opposition leader Bill Shorten has said that if his party wins the upcoming election, he'll hold a plebiscite on whether the country should become a republic.
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But the plebiscite showed that the tide of Filipino Muslim sentiment is running against the men of violence—even though it may take time to sweep them away.
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Renzi had vowed to resign if a "No" vote prevailed, turning the referendum into a plebiscite about his leadership, which grew increasingly unpopular due to the ailing economy.
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These latest public statements from Corbyn and Thornberry also seem to highlight a significant difference inside the party when it comes to the prospect of a fresh plebiscite.
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The chief state prosecutor has said that creating the assembly without a plebiscite, as happened in 1999 when Chavez rewrote the constitution, threatened to "eliminate" democracy in Venezuela.
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The news comes as the Australian government, led by the conservative Liberal Party, is weighing up when to call a plebiscite on the issue of same-sex marriage.
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For example, in 2014 Congress delegated on the Department of Justice to supervise the confection of a ballot for a local non-binding plebiscite with constitutionally valid alternatives.
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A decision by KRG President Massoud Barzani to include these so-called disputed territories in the plebiscite was widely interpreted as a unilateral move to consolidate Kurdish control.
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The idea of a plebiscite is a popular one in Chile since a popular vote ended Pinochet's military dictatorship after he asked whether he should stay in power.
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Soto said he's submitted his signature as a co-sponsor either for the new bill or the old one, provided the text recognizes the results of the plebiscite.
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But it was assumed that the plebiscite that would decide the issue would be a great moment for the Colombian people, their chance for true democracy to prevail.
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Embracing the concept of direct democracy and celebrating what he calls the "wisdom" of the people, AMLO has already employed the "consulta publica" or plebiscite, to great effect.
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Yet eight out of 10 Puerto Ricans did not cast a vote in Sunday's plebiscite, many because they did not believe the non-binding referendum would sway Congress.
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But in 2015, after loud demands from some of his ministers, Abbott announced there would be a national vote, or plebiscite, to decide the future of marriage equality.
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To date, the Conservative government has dismissed the case as legal "camouflage," a thinly disguised effort to frustrate the will of the people expressed in a June plebiscite.
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And many lawmakers who support gay marriage say the plebiscite is not the right platform and instead favor a direct vote by lawmakers on the issue in Parliament.
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A bloc of politicians, some of whom support gay marriage, have said they will not vote in favor of allowing a plebiscite, possibly scuttling hopes for any change.
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But Mr. Shorten has not declared whether the Labor Party would support the plebiscite when lawmakers vote on the bill, which will be debated in the coming weeks.
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Dutton, Andrews and Abbott all campaigned against same-sex marriage ahead of a country-wide postal plebiscite in 2017, where Australians voted in favor of allowing such unions.
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Today, Sinn Féin, the political arm of the IRA, has called for a plebiscite in Ireland and Northern Ireland to unify the two if the UK leaves Europe.
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In Australia Malcolm Turnbull also supported same-sex marriage although he has pushed the issue to a post-election plebiscite to appease the radical right of his party.
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Did opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn show weak political leadership by agreeing to a rather tepid endorsement of the Remain vote prior to that momentous June 2016 plebiscite?
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The October 2017 declaration followed a plebiscite that Catalan authorities defied a judicial ban to carry out, angering some in the region and much of the rest of Spain.
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"It doesn't change the results of the plebiscite, but it reminds the parties that what is at stake is the end of the war, not political calculations," he said.
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According to activist group Australian Marriage Equality, the last plebiscite vote, which focused on the national anthem, was in 1977 and it took seven years to implement the result.
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For his part, Turnbull has stated that if the people say they back same-sex marriage in the plebiscite, the government will support a change of the Marriage Act.
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Although almost two-thirds of Australians want gay marriage legalised and just 6% are undecided, a recent poll found that only 39% of Australians approved of holding a plebiscite.
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Despite this, he went to the election with, for example, his predecessor Tony Abbott's policy of holding a plebiscite on same-sex marriage -- an idea he had originally opposed.
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Polls have shifted only slightly in favour of remaining, and there is no great enthusiasm for another plebiscite, which would be the fourth nationwide vote in as many years.
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Western powers are concerned a plebiscite in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region - including the oil-rich city of Kirkuk - could divert attention from the war against Islamic State militants.
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The campaign had played out differently in Scotland, the main faultline being the SNP's drive for a second referendum on independence from Britain, having lost a plebiscite in 2014.
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The greater the chance they might be able to vent their spleen in a plebiscite on the EU, the further the French bond market rot will spread in Europe.
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The pro-statehood governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, invited the people of the island to vote in favor of statehood on a plebiscite held on June 11, 2017.
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If the accord is defeated in the plebiscite, the FARC will return to their jungle and mountain camps, says César Gaviria, another former president, who is campaigning for "Yes".
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On Wednesday, Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan leader, said that Catalonia would hold an independence referendum in September 2017 if Madrid did not agree to such a plebiscite before then.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Nearly 7.2 million Venezuelans participated in an informal plebiscite organized on Sunday by the opposition against leftist President Nicolas Maduro's government, according to academics monitoring the vote.
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"Late last week the AEC provided advice to the Special Minister of State that strongly recommended against the conduct of a plebiscite this calendar year," the spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Last month, prosecutors issued an international arrest warrant for former vice president Jaffar Ahmed Said Hassani - who had openly opposed the plebiscite - on charges of plotting against the state.
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General Pinochet, confident that his high-growth economic policies had gained him public support, sought to extend his rule by eight years through a plebiscite sanctioned under his Constitution.
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This is due to lay out the terms for the overall implementation of the whole package of partial accords, and expected to mandate a national plebiscite to ratify them.
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Wanda Vázquez Garced — who isn't affiliated with a party at the national level — and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R) as representatives to the federal government for the plebiscite.
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Holding a plebiscite on whether to accept Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a ridiculous idea, because that is a question of truth that should be left to experts.
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Although it is unlikely that the Department of Justice will endorse this plebiscite, as provided by Public Law 113-76, statehood leadership should submit the ballot for its approval.
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It is precisely this lack of legal foundation and absence political coherence that lead them to boycott the June 11th, 85033 plebiscite in which the alternative of statehood prevailed.
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"(Calgary) is working hard, communicating in their community and we are keeping away from that discussion (plebiscite)," said Juan Antonio Samaranch, who heads the IOC's evaluation of the bids.
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The centre-left opposition Labor Party immediately dug in its heels over the government's proposal to hold a national plebiscite on same-sex marriage, which it considers expensive and unnecessary.
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The opposition has intensified demonstrations since authorities last week effectively scuttled its drive for a plebiscite, with a national strike and march to the presidential palace set for coming days.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said if the plebiscite isn't held, marriage equality could be off the agenda until 2019, which is when the next general elections will be held.
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Tony Abbott, a more recent Liberal prime minister, tried to duck demands that parliament reverse this change by proposing in 2015 that Australians vote in a non-binding plebiscite instead.
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If the No movement were being led by someone else, Sunday's plebiscite could have provided a platform for thoughtful dialogue, the kind necessary for the construction of a sustainable peace.
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But speaking to reporters after the meeting, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said the plebiscite would remain policy and legislation could be reintroduced into the senate as early as this week.
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I urge the members of the 115th Congress, to act on the admission of Puerto Rico as soon as the people restate their desire in the June 11 status plebiscite.
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The Liberal government in power promised a plebiscite would take place as soon as possible after the July Federal election, but reports now indicate it could be pushed into 2017.
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By assenting to ratification by plebiscite rather than by a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, the FARC have recognised the legitimacy of Colombian democracy and the rule of law.
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Not only was there no mandate for statehood from last year's plebiscite, but facts and history show that the movement to make Puerto Rico the 2023st state is losing steam.
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Australia's High Court handed down a decision Thursday to allow the federal government to lawfully use $122 million to implement a postal plebiscite on the matter of same-sex marriage.
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Still, the new bill's sponsors dismissed the idea of going through the plebiscite process once more, as that argument has been used in the past to stall momentum on statehood.
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In the midst of the worst financial calamity since the Great Depression for the island, Puerto Rico's government is moving ahead with yet another plebiscite on its state status question.
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That opens an array of possibilities including a much softer divorce than May had intended, a second plebiscite, a revocation of the Article 50 divorce papers, or even an election.
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The disagreements include whether to put the issue to legislators or voters, and whether that should be through the mail or a national vote, known in Australia as a plebiscite.
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The government of Iraq offers no option for secession in its newly drafted constitution and its supreme court put a hold on the plebiscite — an order that was roundly ignored.
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Notwithstanding the surely forthcoming lobbying efforts by statehood opponents and the defenders of their tax exemption privileges, the plebiscite marks a paradigm shift on the status issue for Puerto Rico.
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The opposition has accused Maduro of veering into dictatorship by sidelining the legislature, detaining opponents and leaning on compliant judicial and electoral authorities to block a plebiscite on his rule.
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In Italy, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement has campaigned aggressively against a referendum on constitutional changes on Sunday, turning it into a virtual plebiscite on Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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Healthcare, the economy and gay rights have been the central issues of the 2016 campaign, with Australia set for a national plebiscite on same-sex marriage if Turnbull is re-elected.
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An original draft was rejected in a plebiscite last month as too lenient on the rebels, forcing the two sides back to the negotiating table for a second, slightly modified document.
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The peace deal was rejected in a surprise plebiscite result this month, shortly before Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's 52-year war.
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In other words, what will happen is 20183 all over again: Puerto Rico will hold another non-binding plebiscite on Election Day and nobody in Congress will pay attention or care.
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Santos late last year concluded a peace accord with the larger Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrilla group, after it was rejected in a shock plebiscite result in October.
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After an aborted push for a second referendum earlier this year (the first such plebiscite was lost by 2129% to 22021% in 262), Scotland's nationalist party now hesitates on the topic.
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Why is it that we can find money to swap flags, pay exorbitant salaries to agency leaders and fund a nonbinding plebiscite, yet we can't find money to audit the debt?
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"They're burying the constitution, which will very soon recover thanks to the recall referendum," said opposition lawmaker Jose Guerra on Twitter, referring to a push to remove Maduro via a plebiscite.
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While Santos' peace accord with the FARC was internationally lauded, it was narrowly rebuffed in a plebiscite as too lenient on the rebels, who formed in 1964 as a peasant rebellion.
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The exercises came as Turkey, the central government in Baghdad and their shared neighbor Iran all stepped up protests and warnings about the looming plebiscite in semi-autonomous Kurdish northern Iraq.
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Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to apply to Congress to become the 51st state, election officials said, although less than a quarter of eligible voters cast ballots in the plebiscite.
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A spokeswoman for Turnbull said the government was committed to holding a plebiscite, or public vote, as soon as possible after the election but had not committed further to the timing.
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The agreement must be ratified in a plebiscite, and implementing it will require the rebels to surrender their weapons, withdraw from drug trafficking and submit to a procedure of transitional justice.
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"If ever there is an issue to be put to a plebiscite, this is one that can be and should be because it is a very straightforward question," Mr. Turnbull said.
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The electoral council missed its own deadline of Tuesday for evaluating the legitimacy of the 400,000 signatures the opposition collected in the first stage of its efforts to force the plebiscite.
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Calgary has planned a non-binding plebiscite in November which could bury the Canadian bid to host the winter Olympics for the second time since 1988 as early as next month.
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Moreover, the plebiscite ballot was prepared taking in consideration the recommendations as proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice in its April 2628, 28503 letter as to the various status options.
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Two years after the debacle of the first plebiscite, Catalonia's independence drive still dominates much of Spain's fractured political debate, and the ruling will likely colour a national election on Nov.
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CARACAS, July 16 (Reuters) - Nearly 7.2 million Venezuelans participated in an informal plebiscite organized on Sunday by the opposition against leftist President Nicolas Maduro's government, according to academics monitoring the vote.
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During talks on the ceasefire deal, the FARC accepted putting a final deal to a plebiscite, a promise made by President Juan Manual Santos that had been a key sticking point.
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But broader issues, including tax policy and a vote for a plebiscite on gay marriage, have either moved slowly or been voted down, leading to the government's poor polling among voters.
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Op-Ed Contributor On July 16, more than seven million Venezuelans voted in a plebiscite that emphatically rejected President Nicolás Maduro's plans to convene a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the Constitution.
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"We would not be true to ourselves if we said 'we think this is a terrible idea but, all right, have a plebiscite'," Labor Party Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen told Sky News.
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"The legal advice we have is that such a step, conducting a plebiscite, would be invalid," Anna Brown, director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre told reporters in Canberra.
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Although the plebiscite did not turn out as Mr Cameron hoped, his defeat may have succeeded in disarming the threat posed to his party by the populist right, at least for now.
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Conservatives in Turnbull's party want him to keep the plebiscite which was originally devised by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in 2015, rather than passing same-sex marriage in a Parliamentary vote.
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The cost of a plebiscite could amount to around A$200 million, while the cost of a nugget is 64.25 cents at McDonalds, based off a 12 pack of the fried morsels.
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P&G has sought to make the vote a plebiscite on Peltz's qualifications to shape the strategy of a top consumer goods company, so a loss could be particularly bruising for him.
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More than 56 percent of voters said 'No' in the plebiscite, a surprisingly lopsided margin after both sides had expected a close call in the city which hosted the 1988 Winter Games.
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In August 2015, at a party room meeting of the Liberal National Coalition, then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott changed his party's policy to call for a plebiscite after the 2016 national election.
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"Out of 10 workers, nine support this plebiscite," said union leader Leonel Grisett, who said he was fired a few weeks ago for coming out against Maduro's plans to overhaul the constitution.
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The opposition has accused Maduro of veering into dictatorship by sidelining the legislature, detaining opponents and leaning on compliant judicial and electoral authorities to block the plebiscite they had been campaigning for.
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The bid had been on thin ice even before the plebiscite with the city council having narrowly voted last month to proceed with the process and take it to a community referendum.
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As a result, the plebiscite is non-binding, but the government says a "yes" vote will lead to a conscience vote on the issue in Parliament, where politicians can cross party lines.
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House Speaker and Duterte ally Pantaleon Alvarez has said it was possible May 2019 mid-term elections would be canceled if proposed constitutional amendments, to introduce federalism, pass a plebiscite this year.
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" Ms. Wong, who is gay and who spoke about her two young children during the debate, described the plebiscite as a "mechanism dreamed up by those in the coalition who oppose equality.
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In an unusual show of unity, his party members agreed on Monday in a cabinet and party room vote to allow the bill on the national plebiscite to be sent to Parliament.
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And I was touring when the whole plebiscite was announced, and also when legislation got passed, so I was removed from the thick of it, which I am pretty deeply saddened about.
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But what precisely such a plebiscite would ask and how soon it could be arranged are open questions, and to delay March 29 would require consensus from the other 27 member states.
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It has been the subject of tens of U.N. Security Council resolutions, specifically stating that Kashmir is an international issue that needs to be resolved through a plebiscite and under international auspices.
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Guam is one of 17 non-self-governing territories recognized by the United Nations, but it's in the middle of a plebiscite concerning the island's status in relation to the United States.
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Peace talks between Anastasiades and Akinci to unite Cyprus under a federal umbrella had been progressing well until the unexpected row over the 67-year old plebiscite, a throwback to Cyprus's colonial era.
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The idea of a second Brexit referendum is very likely to be put before Britain's parliament again although the government remains opposed to any new plebiscite, the British finance minister said on Friday.
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Moody's had assigned Colombia a Baa2 credit rating with a stable outlook prior to the rejection of the plebiscite on Sunday by a razor-thin margin of less than half a percentage point.
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She may announce a new plebiscite within weeks, in the hope that Scotland might be able to leave Britain before Britain leaves the EU. Mrs May seems to be taking the possibility seriously.
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Filipino followers of Islamic State set off the bombs just six days after mainly Muslim areas in the south of the country had approved by plebiscite a scheme to enhance the region's autonomy.
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Western powers worry the plebiscite - which would include the oil-producing city of Kirkuk - could ignite conflict with the central government in Baghdad and divert attention from the war against Islamic State militants.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who won office in September 2015, disappointed many by continuing his support for a plebiscite on the issue, despite the fact a public vote would not change the law.
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For nine months same-sex marriage in Australia has remained in limbo, after a government proposal to hold a national vote, or plebiscite, on the topic was blocked in Parliament in October 2016.
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The plebiscite was first raised as a possibility at a meeting of the Liberal National Coalition in August 2015, where then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised the national vote after the 2016 election.
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Venezuela's state workers are cooking up creative ways to participate in Sunday's opposition plebiscite without being spotted by colleagues or Socialist Party members, which could compromise their jobs in Venezuela's vengeful political climate.
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The vote by the 15-member Calgary city council was a mere formality after 56.4 percent of voters in a non-binding plebiscite last Tuesday gave a thumbs down to the 2026 Olympics.
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The No campaign in the plebiscite will be led, if not formally, by former president Álvaro Uribe, whose father was killed by the FARC and who himself was their target on several occasions.
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The election board gave a timetable on Wednesday for a potential plebiscite to happen in early 2017, meaning that should Maduro lose, the vice-president would take over under constitutional rules on succession.
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But after fierce objection from LGBT groups -- who did not want a popular vote to decide what they see as an issue of equality -- opposition parties blocked the proposed plebiscite in the Senate.
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The plebiscite is the first in more than four decades on the European issue, and migration has been one of the most effective arguments of those who want to quit, including Mr. Gove.
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More recently, in June 2017, faced with a heavily biased pro-statehood referendum, 76.77 percent of the eligible voters boycotted that year's plebiscite, lending statehood a pyrrhic victory without any legitimacy in Washington.
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Justice required Rosselló to include the status quo in a revised ballot, which he did, but the DOJ said it would not have enough time to review the revised ballot before the plebiscite.
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But on Monday, a majority of senators from the Greens and from the Labor Party, along with lawmakers from smaller parties, joined together to block the plebiscite, by a vote of 33-29.
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A bill that would have allowed for a plebiscite on the issue was shot down in Parliament over the $140 million cost and concerns that it would become a platform for hate speech.
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And even one of Mr. Turnbull's own party members, Dean Smith, a West Australian Liberal senator, said he would abstain from voting for the plebiscite, or cross the floor and vote against it.
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Gonzalez said this is the first time the island has held a plebiscite vote over statehood where the Justice Department has defined the options on the ballot, making them compatible with U.S. law.
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Putin, 67, emphasized that the legislation, which passed the lower house of Parliament Tuesday, still needs approval from Russia's Constitutional Court and a nationwide plebiscite scheduled for April, The New York Times reported.
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For those that favor statehood, the results are a clear and decisive ratification of the 2202 plebiscite, which then rejected our continued territorial status and favored statehood by 2628 percent of the vote.
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The fact that a politically embattled Department of Justice - for other well known reasons - did not give its final blessings to the ballot language should not be construed as opposition to the plebiscite.
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The June 23 plebiscite, in which around 52 percent of those voting chose to leave, has transformed the Conservative Party, which had been split over a British exit, into an enthusiast for it.
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The rallies came after Australia's High Court handed down a decision Thursday to allow the federal government to lawfully use $13 million to implement a postal plebiscite on the matter of same-sex marriage.
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Supporters of European Union membership hope that Mr. Cameron's status as an election-winning prime minister will prove decisive in the referendum campaign, which will be the first British plebiscite on Europe since 1975.
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He reiterated calls for U.S. Congress to recognize the results of a June 11 plebiscite in which Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly in favor of U.S. statehood, even though voter turnout was only 23 percent.
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Rousseff told a group of senators and political allies on Thursday that she was open to the holding of a plebiscite for the country to decide new elections, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported.
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If the opposition next month successfully collects 230 percent of total voter signatures requesting the plebiscite, then it "could take place halfway through the first quarter of 2017," the board said in a statement.
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In 2015, under pressure from moderates in his party to take action, then-prime minister Tony Abbott announced there would be a national vote, or plebiscite, to decide whether marriage equality should be legislated.
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With some notable exceptions, once in Congress most politicians choose to ignore their party's platform commitments, failing to legislate either a statehood admission bill, a "statehood yes or no" plebiscite or any other process.
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Khan turned the by-election into a plebiscite about corruption and has accused the provincial Punjab government, which is run by Nawaz's brother Shahbaz, of abusing state resources to help the PML-N campaign.
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In the past, some conservative lawmakers have said that they would not vote for a change to the Marriage Act if their constituents voted against it, regardless of the national outcome of the plebiscite.
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The purpose of Macron's proposed plebiscite is twofold: it demonstrates the urgency with which he hopes to implement change and it sends a clear signal to the public that their voices will be heard.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the "no" result on Sunday in a plebiscite on a peace accord between his government and the Marxist FARC rebels, but said a ceasefire would continue.
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This plebiscite, proposed by a prime minister who has openly stated that he supports same-sex marriage, will let the public vote on whether they think same-sex marriage should be allowed or not.
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CARACAS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition was to hold nationwide rallies on Wednesday against unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro, whom they accuse of morphing into a dictator by preventing a plebiscite to remove him.
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"We are confident if we can get the support of the European Union, ultimately it would get through parliament," Hunt told the BBC in Myanmar, adding there would be no second plebiscite on Brexit.
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Mr. Gove, who is strongly against holding another plebiscite, then seemed to undermine his argument by adding that the campaign to leave the bloc would win again were a second vote to take place.
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If that doesn't happen, the alternative would be a military intervention to install a national unity government that would organize free and fair elections — in essence, the plebiscite that Mr. Maduro refuses to hold.
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The multi-million dollar plebiscite is over and yielded a clear result: the people of Puerto Rico want a leader focused on restoring economic strength and credibility to the Commonwealth rather than pursuing statehood.
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Instead, the vote ballooned into an impassioned plebiscite on globalization, economic dislocation, migration, identity and other issues that have galvanized citizens not only in Britain, but across Europe and the United States as well.
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Energized by a massive vote against President Nicolas Maduro in an unofficial plebiscite, Venezuela's opposition mulled on Monday how to escalate protests and block a new congress it fears may enshrine Socialist Party hegemony.
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A few months later, the plebiscite took place in which Colombians voted against the peace agreements between the armed insurgency and the government that would've ended a war that has lasted half a century.
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In the latest development in the fight for marriage equality, the Australian Parliament looks set to vote no to holding a plebiscite on the issue of same-sex marriage early in the new year.
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Dr. Andrew Hughes, a specialist in political marketing at the Research School of Management at ANU, thinks this signals the Labor Party's commitment to passing the issue immediately if elected, and without a plebiscite.
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Khan has turned the by-election into a plebiscite about corruption, and has accused the provincial Punjab government, which is run by Nawaz's brother Shahbaz, of abusing state resources to help the PML-N campaign.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The idea of a second Brexit referendum is very likely to be put before Britain's parliament again although the government remains opposed to any new plebiscite, the British finance minister said on Friday.
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Their fears were realized shortly after the Constitution's promulgation when the charismatic young general Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in a coup d'état that he followed up with a quick plebiscite to demonstrate his popular support.
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Points of dispute have included the barring of Turkish politicians from holding campaign rallies in EU countries ahead of an April referendum, and concerns over the powers granted to Erdogan in the closely fought plebiscite.
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On Friday, however, the two parties softened their respective stances on that issue and insisted they rather wanted to focus on economic and social questions, with Iglesias stopping short of calling again for a plebiscite.
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President Juan Manuel Santos explained Wednesday that, while he will submit the peace agreement before Congress later today, approval will depend on the outcome of a previously promised plebiscite set to be held October 2.
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But after fierce objection from lesbian and gay groups -- who did not want a popular vote to decide what they see as an issue of equality -- opposition parties blocked the proposed plebiscite in the Senate.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebel leader, Rodrigo Londono, said on Sunday the insurgent group maintained its desire for peace despite the failure of a plebiscite to approve its recently signed deal with the government.
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In 2015, under pressure from moderates in his Liberal party to take action, then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced there would be a national vote, or plebiscite, to decide whether marriage equality should be legislated.
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Owing to machinations of the area's then-monarch, this did not happen, and since then India, in contravention of UN resolutions, has denied Kashmiris the right to have a plebiscite and decide their own fate.
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On Thursday, a Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman said the Kashmir dispute could only be resolved through implementation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that call for an end to hostilities and a plebiscite in the region.
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The lottery-cum-scavenger-hunt had been mandated by a plebiscite conducted under government contract by the Omnicom Group of MadMen, who had offered a variety of scenarios for the reopening of the Second Dustbowl.
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But despite support for another plebiscite among his party members, Mr. Corbyn has yet to embrace the idea, either for his own Euroskeptic beliefs or perhaps for fear of antagonizing Leave voters in Labour's ranks.
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The federal opposition has put pressure on the government to move quicker on same-sex marriage, pledging to skip a plebiscite and introduce a bill to parliament within 100 days if it wins the federal election.
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This is an expensive way to push through the reform: PwC, a consulting firm, reckons that the plebiscite could cost $525m Australian dollars ($380m), including an estimated $158m to conduct the voting and $66m for campaigning.
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González-Colón will have help in her duties, as a Puerto Rican law signed by Rosselló shortly before the plebiscite compels him to appoint two senators and five congressmen to demand to be seated in Washington.
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SAN JUAN, June 11 (Reuters) - Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to apply to Congress to become the 51st state, election officials said, although less than a quarter of eligible voters cast ballots in the plebiscite.
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Pauline Hanson, a senator from Queensland for the right-wing One Nation party, had moved that the plebiscite take place at the same time as the next national election, which must be held by November 2019.
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Yet, with most senior Scottish politicians wanting to remain in the European Union, the referendum appears a strangely muted affair in Scotland — a pale shadow of the independence plebiscite of 2014 that divided friends and families.
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The Labour Party has moved more decisively into the second-referendum camp and the number of MPs who think that another plebiscite is the only way to get Britain out of its current paralysis has increased.
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The results of the June 2900, 220006 Puerto Rico status plebiscite, and their various interpretations, underline the political tension in each of the competing political sectors in the island and their respective visions for the future.
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In October, a slim majority of voters rejected an earlier version of the deal in a plebiscite, forcing President Juan Manuel Santos to go back to the negotiating table to seek additional concessions from the FARC.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set on a plebiscite on the matter, opening the issue to a public vote, which is expected to cost A$158.4 million (US$113.1 million.) Have something to add to this story?
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On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully through Caracas to demand that a plebiscite on Maduro, the successor to Hugo Chavez and whose popularity has plummeted due to an economic crisis, be held this year.
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Most Remain commentators and voters accept that the country has voted for Brexit, and while they will debate and argue the case for the best deal for Britain, they don't want to go through a second plebiscite.
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A vocal opponent of the plebiscite, Joyce was the first high-profile corporate figure to reject the government's plan for same-sex marriage, arguing that the decision should be made by lawmakers, not put to a poll.
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They argue that, rather than a rerun of the 2016 plebiscite, this new "people's vote" would decide whether whatever Brexit deal the government finally produces matches up to the extravagant promises made in the raucous referendum campaign.
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Socialist Maduro has come under increasing international criticism because of what is seen as his attempt to tighten his grip on power in the oil-rich Latin American nation with major constitutional changes, approved by a plebiscite.
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But on Monday, all sitting politicians in the governing Liberal National coalition were called to a closed-door meeting in Canberra, following calls by a group of rebel government politicians to dump the plebiscite as party policy.
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The Australian Christian Lobby, an advocacy group opposing same-sex marriage that has more than 50,000 members, said the defeat of the plebiscite bill had given it more time to campaign against changes to the Marriage Act.
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The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday that the plebiscite, which Turnbull had promised to hold this year, had been delayed until at least February, but a spokesman for the prime minister said no date had been set.
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Batlle's resignation comes days after three members of Catalonia's regional government also stepped down, ahead of the plebiscite which has ratcheted up a stand-off between Madrid and Barcelona and caused divisions even in the separatist camp.
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After 15 years of doing almost everything wrong, the opposition seized its moment in 1988, when the dictator held a plebiscite: A "yes" vote meant eight more years, a "no" vote meant free elections the next year.
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May's finance minister, Philip Hammond, said on Friday it was very likely that the idea of a second Brexit referendum would again be put to parliament at some point, though the government remained opposed to any new plebiscite.
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There'll be an official vote in Australian Parliament before the end of the year, and the Prime Minister has publicly declared his intention to vote for legalising same-sex marriage in parliament, after voting "Yes" in the plebiscite.
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Matthew Taylor, adjunct senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, said one of the main reasons the plebiscite was voted down was the low voter turnout, a consequence of the apathy surrounding it.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Predominantly Muslim areas of the mainly Catholic Philippines took part in a plebiscite on Monday to decide whether power should be devolved to a locally elected administration in one of Southeast Asia's most conflict-torn regions.
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Asked about the possibility of such a plebiscite being held without Spain's consent, Torra said he was seeking a wide agreement among Catalan parties on a road map towards the region's independence, so no options were ruled out.
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Given the strong historical opposition to statehood, the fact that the forces opposing statehood got only 3 percent of the vote, is the clearest evidence that the real winner of this last plebiscite was the anti-statehood boycott.
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Most mainstream Pakistani politicians privately accept that their country's longstanding demand for a plebiscite that would allow Kashmiris on either side to decide their future, as called for in a UN resolution in 1948, will never be met.
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The government has pledged to hold a plebiscite as soon as May to loosen some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, but the wording of the referendum and subsequent legislation have not yet been agreed.
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Blaming Maduro for the OPEC nation's deep economic crisis, the opposition had campaigned for a plebiscite to be held this year because that would have triggered a new presidential election had Maduro lost, as polls indicate he would.
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Given the strong historical opposition to statehood, the fact that the forces opposing statehood got only 3 percent of the vote is the clearest evidence that the real winner of this last plebiscite was the anti-statehood boycott.
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He also insisted that Santos, who on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts despite the plebiscite defeat, can still revive the peace deal and start its implementation before the end of his term in 2018.
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Because of the exclusion of the "Commonwealth" status option, among other reasons, the 22019 status plebiscite, as was the case in the 2012 referendum, lacks the endorsement of the Partido Popular Democratico, the island's main opposition political party.
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"No" voters, who narrowly won Sunday's plebiscite, want assurances the rebels will hand in cash from drugs, spend time in jail, and earn their political future at the ballot box rather than get guaranteed, unelected seats in Congress.
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If the peace accord is approved by voters in a plebiscite in October, Colombians will have a remarkable chance to realize the potential of a nation that has suffered from decades of violence, entrenched inequality and weak institutions.
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All the parliamentary wrangling has amounted to an attempt to turn fantasy into reality — to reconcile a plebiscite with parliamentary democracy (which is what Britain is) and somehow kick the disaster that is Brexit into the long grass.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono signed a revised peace accord on Thursday in a far more sober ceremony than a first deal rejected last month by millions at a plebiscite.
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With a lively group of bid supporters, many wearing red and white Canada sweaters, packing the council chambers, Hutcheson and Moran stood their ground against combative councilors urging them to let Calgarians decide the bid's fate in a plebiscite.
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"I oppose a plebiscite because I don't want my relationship, my family to be the subject of inquiry, of censure, of condemnation by others and I do not want other relationships, other families to be targeted either," she said.
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But the FARC's arrogant insistence on presenting the talks as being between two equally legitimate sides was a political mistake that made the agreement look more generous to them than it actually was—and made winning the plebiscite harder.
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The Czech president and some contenders for the French presidency have called for their own referendums on continued membership of the pan-European economic and political community, although no such plebiscite is on the cards in the near future.
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The Scottish could still choose to press ahead with a symbolic, non-legally binding vote to put moral pressure on the Westminster government, echoing the "consultation of citizens" plebiscite held in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia in 2014.
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Philip Hammond, the British finance minister, said on Friday it was very likely that the idea of a second Brexit referendum would again be put to parliament at some point, although the government remained opposed to any new plebiscite.
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"The plebiscite for peace will take place on Sunday, October 2 of this year," Santos said in a televised speech after negotiators from the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) formally announced the deal in Havana.
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Maduro, the unpopular 53-year-old successor to Hugo Chavez who has presided over an unprecedented economic crisis, accuses the opposition of seeking a coup with U.S. help and has vowed there will be no plebiscite on his rule.
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Given the strong views on both sides it was a wise decision by president Juan Manuel Santos not to use the powers he has to conclude the deal but to hold a plebiscite, risky as such consultations can be.
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Although Rosselló and other pro-statehood Puerto Rican officials have based their claim on statehood on the 2017 plebiscite, the governor seemed open to the suggestion in the letter, advanced by his ally in the statehood fight, González-Colón .
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Related: After defying ISIS, 'Kurds aren't afraid of anything' Three-day deadline looms On Wednesday, the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved a number of punitive measures against the Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, for going ahead with the plebiscite.
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The Five Star blog called the vote "one of the most beautiful pages in the history of direct democracy," because of the plebiscite that confirmed the party's leader, 80 percent in favor, but also the high number of voters.
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Napoleon III, elected in 1848 and made emperor through a plebiscite four years later, gave France "a lot to be proud of," Fenby thinks — not just the rebuilding of Paris but also pasteurization, margarine, batteries, hypodermic needles and bicycles.
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Although Mr. Santos's ambitious reforms have not been endorsed by a clear majority of Colombians and his decision to skip a new plebiscite is unpopular, they are the only way to avoid abandoning a meticulously put-together peace agreement.
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The Security Council adopted several resolutions in 1948 and in the 1950s on the dispute between India and Pakistan over the region, including one which says a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of mostly Muslim Kashmir.
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Gay comedic actor Magda Szubanski, known for her roles in Kath & Kim and Babe, brought such relief Monday night, as she went head-to-head with Nationals sentor Fiona Nash who supports the country's controversial, planned plebiscite on marriage equality.
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The government and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company, the country's operator of nuclear power plants, urged residents not to take part in the referendum, which they called illegal because a state project was not subject to a county-level plebiscite.
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Santos suffered a heavy setback this week when Colombians voted in a plebiscite to shoot down his peace agreement with the FARC, and the Peace Prize is an attempt by the Nobel Committee to swing public opinion in favor of peace.
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Either alternatives does not bode well for the PPD as an electoral institution, reason for which they seem to have opted (again) for a delay strategy, obfuscating and putting obstacles at every turn in an attempt to derail a status plebiscite.
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Seeking a recall referendum may be messy, he added, given Maduro-leaning judicial and electoral institutions could delay it into 2017, meaning his vice-president would take over rather than there being a new election if he lost the plebiscite.
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The U.N. Security Council adopted several resolutions in 1948 and in the 1950s on the dispute between India and Pakistan over the region, including one which says a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of the mostly Muslim Kashmir.
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"What happened in the plebiscite last week was a setback but should not derail us from the goal of reaching an agreement," he said, pointing to recent demonstrations in Medellin and Bogota that he said show its popularity with Colombian youth.
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The shooting and stabbing death of Ms. Cox, 41, a member of the opposition Labour Party, left Britain stunned and set off a debate about the tone of Britain's increasingly fractious politics ahead of the plebiscite regarding the European bloc.
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The Security Council adopted several resolutions in 1948 and in the 1950s on the dispute between India and Pakistan over the region, including one which says a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of the mostly Muslim Kashmir.
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Like much of Britain, Corbyn's Labour party is deeply divided over Brexit, with some senior lawmakers leading calls for a fresh vote and others representing areas that recorded the highest support for leaving the European Union in the 2016 plebiscite.
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In 2016 that ball slipped, agonizingly, from his grasp after the Brexit referendum, when Mr. Johnson was abandoned by key allies and forced to withdraw from the contest to replace the former prime minister, David Cameron, who quit after the plebiscite.
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The two-round plebiscite is the first time the Les Republicains party and its allies have chosen a candidate through a primary election, and the system is new to France, having been used only once before - by the Socialists in 2011.
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That proposal, however—though it set out the possibility of a direct plebiscite for the position of Chief Executive—mandated that all candidates be endorsed by a nominating committee that tends to be loyal to Beijing and the city's business élite.
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The other two possibilities — that a free vote passes in the House of Representatives with the support of Liberals who cross the floor or the plebiscite bill passes in the Senate because a couple of senators change their minds — are unlikely.
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Following the Australian government's twice-failed attempt to roll out a plebiscite (a public vote on issues that don't affect the Australian constitution) on the issue, Australians will instead be sent a voluntary postal survey to vote on marriage equality in September.
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The proposal, posted before the June 23 referendum, said the government should hold another plebiscite on EU membership if the support for Leave or Remain in a referendum was less than 60 percent in a turnout of under 75 percent of eligible voters.
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On March 13th Scotland's first minister said she would seek permission from Westminster for a second referendum on Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom, less than three years after a plebiscite in which Scots voted by 55% to 45% to stay put.
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Isabella Mills, who lives with her mum Julie-Anne and her step-mum Courtney, appeared on The Project on Thursday night, to share her views very publicly with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull regarding a proposed plebiscite — or popular vote — on same-sex marriage.
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And now it has bestowed one on Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, just days after Colombian voters rejected in a plebiscite his plan to end the country's 52-year-long war with the FARC, a hybrid revolutionary army and organised-crime outfit.
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But it is probably no coincidence that the bombing came so soon after the plebiscite, in which 87% of the 2m voters of the largely Muslim areas of the south voted in favour of the creation of the "Bangsamoro Autonomous Region" (see map).
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Warhurst said the plebiscite had originally been the policy of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, as a way to defer the introduction of same sex marriage, and when he became leader Turnbull had been forced to keep it by his party's conservatives.
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"Given the majority of parliamentarians and Australians now support marriage equality, is a $160 million plebiscite necessary and what impact do you think the debate will have on the emotional wellbeing of gay and lesbians like me," Alastair McKenzie asked his sister.
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It has also called for a nonbinding plebiscite on the status of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States, costing taxpayers an estimated $10 million, but lacking the endorsement of federal authorities that would need to take action on the results.
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Although polls show a majority of the country support the cause, the current conservative government has said it wants to hold a plebiscite on the issue—a non-binding general vote by the public— before members of parliament vote to change the law.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Alvaro Uribe, a former Colombian president and the leader of the country's political opposition, said on Sunday he wants to contribute to a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas after voters rejected an accord with the FARC rebels in a plebiscite.
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Gonzalo Blumel, the interior minister, said on Sunday that the government hoped to set up a "constituent congress," in which a group of legislators would decide on a new text "with participation from citizens," and submit it for approval through a plebiscite.
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Precisely, in the most recent plebiscite held in 2012 in Puerto Rico, with the participation of 81 percent of the electorate, an absolute majority revoked the consent of the governed to the current territorial status, while 61 percent favored statehood for Puerto Rico.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australia's opposition Labor Party voted to block legislation to allow a public referendum on same-sex marriage, Bill Shorten, the party's leader, said on Tuesday, effectively killing the nonbinding plebiscite that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had proposed for early next year.
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President Juan Manuel Santos (who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday) could have made the agreement official without the need of a plebiscite, but he yielded to the temptation of obtaining, through this peace accord, the support of his fugitive voters.
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Calls by Westminster and Scottish MPs (who seem to forget that they lost their Independence Referendum in 85033) to ignore the result or hold a 2nd plebiscite only reinforce the feeling held by much of the electorate that they are not listened to.
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But the impact of this plebiscite is likely to be profound and long-lasting, well beyond the immediate tumult in the financial markets, and the questions about Britain's future will be answered against the backdrop of potential political, legal and economic upheaval.
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"President Santos and his negotiating team, those from the 'No' campaign, and other important sectors of Colombian society deserve credit for engaging in a far-reaching and respectful national dialogue following the plebiscite," Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.
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The obstacle he found impossible to surmount was the long-running euroscepticism within his own party, which, along with a perceived threat from the new, anti-EU UKIP party, persuaded him to try to lay the issue to rest by calling a plebiscite.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Hungarian prime minister's chief of staff said on Thursday he would vote to leave the European Union or abstain if his country ever held a referendum on membership - though he added the government had no plans for such a plebiscite.
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