More important, the UN-mandated plebiscite does not offer Kashmiris what most of them really want: independence.
Conducting a plebiscite is not easy, but it is preferable to another 80 years of conflict.
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.
The government's "referendum lock" would ensure a plebiscite before any future transfer of powers, Mr Hague explained.
Any amendments would be drawn up by Congress, and then have to be ratified by a national plebiscite.
The party then prepared a list of partial amendments, which will be voted on in the upcoming plebiscite.
Even the power arrangements for a future Bangsamoro government have been deferred, pending more negotiations and a plebiscite.
Pakistan has long insisted on sorting out the mess by holding the plebiscite as envisaged by the UN.
"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.
The plebiscite was meant to take place this year but had been postponed by the government to build up support.
It was often said that Tony Blair would have been emasculated by defeat in a plebiscite on joining the euro.
And a freeze, by all means but one that ends in a plebiscite in which they can reaffirm their own destiny.
The peace plan envisages the establishment of an autonomous Muslim area in Mindanao, called Bangsamoro, subject to a plebiscite there.
The Kurds believe these areas should be given the chance, through a plebiscite, to join a new Kurdish federal region.
He points out that any constitutional changes must be approved in a plebiscite, and that should block any undesirable amendments.
And there is a growing danger of national, political disintegration, as the Catalan government makes plans for a plebiscite on secession.
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.
Having the right to a referendum or a plebiscite does not mean that the people need to execute or implement this right immediately.
Sudan recently held a plebiscite over secession in its south, with 99% of voters reportedly choosing separation from its rotten rulers to the north.
Any immediate general election would be the equivalent of a plebiscite on the bailout deal, and would therefore be just as destabilising to markets.
The UK Government says the plebiscite plans breach the law as the constitution is reserved to Westminster - and thus anything attendant upon the constitution.
Eventually calls for democracy led to a plebiscite on his future.
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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.
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