Ecuador's Congress has consented to hold a plebiscite on the formation of a national Constituent Assembly.
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These call for the parliament to nominate a sole candidate, who is then confirmed by plebiscite.
In a plebiscite on their status in 1993, only 27% of the electorate voted at all.
Any amendments would be drawn up by Congress, and then have to be ratified by a national plebiscite.
Even the power arrangements for a future Bangsamoro government have been deferred, pending more negotiations and a plebiscite.
"We're going to court because people shouldn't have to surrender their fundamental rights to a popular plebiscite, " Olson said.
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It could be argued that legitimacy had been granted by the earlier plebiscite.
India has distanced itself from the UN resolutions in the past on a settlement to the problem through a plebiscite.
It was often said that Tony Blair would have been emasculated by defeat in a plebiscite on joining the euro.
The peace plan envisages the establishment of an autonomous Muslim area in Mindanao, called Bangsamoro, subject to a plebiscite there.
He points out that any constitutional changes must be approved in a plebiscite, and that should block any undesirable amendments.
In 1935, a plebiscite in Greece returned George II to the throne.
Belarus's two westernmost provinces, once part of Poland, might demand a plebiscite.
The UK Government says the plebiscite plans breach the law as the constitution is reserved to Westminster - and thus anything attendant upon the constitution.
Yet, even a plebiscite may fall foul of the eternity clause.
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Conservative Graham Stuart said the party had not promised a plebiscite in its election manifesto but a referendum lock, which had been introduced in the European Union Act.
The plebiscite legislation, by Alaska Rep. Don Young, has broad bipartisan support, with backing from President Bill Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.
Puerto Rico's last constitutional plebiscite, in 1993, brought a narrow win for the status quo (plus some added garnishes which may not be on the menu next time).
In 1946, 9-year-old King Simeon II and his family fled Bulgaria and went into exile as Communists seized power and rigged a plebiscite to get rid of the monarchy.
Firstly, it matches the promise delivered by the First Minister during the Holyrood election campaign that the plebiscite would not occur before the second half of the current session.
Language is a kind of informal plebiscite: when we adopt a new word or alter the usage of an old one, we're casting a voice vote for a particular point of view.
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Mr Overy charts the growth of the hugely popular pacifist and anti-war movements, such as the League of Nations Union, which in 1935 through an unofficial plebiscite attracted the support of 12m adult voters.
Yeltsin himself seriously upset his own supporters by reaching an 11th-hour compromise with Khasbulatov on Saturday night in which he blithely abandoned his push for an April plebiscite in favor of presidential and parliamentary elections in November.
Pinochet put the fate of his regime up to a plebiscite several years ago, with the explicit understanding that if he lost (which he did), he could control the armed forces for several years and, thereafter, enjoy full diplomatic immunity.
Last year the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, set up to fight the changes, won a suit alleging that the minister of agriculture had broken the law by stripping the board of its monopoly without first holding a plebiscite among farmers.
Constitutional Reform Minister Mark Harper said the coalition wanted to hold the plebiscite on replacing first-past-the-post (FPTP) with the alternative vote (AV) system at an "early opportunity" so voters would know what system they would be using for the 2015 general election.
On 1 February 2011, during the fifth day of debate at committee stage on the legislation, Mr Bone called on MPs to support his proposal, which would trigger a second referendum if the public voted "no" in a in a plebiscite triggered by the bill.
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