Parlt Amends Referendum Law
- 11 May 2016 9:00 AM
Lawmakers approved an amendment to Hungary’s referendum law that will allow multiple initiatives on the same subject to be presented to the national election office (NVI). All petitioners can therefore start collecting the 200,000 signatures needed for a referendum to be called, irrespective of any overlaps in their questions.
Once the national election committee (NVB) has certified the 200,000 signatures supporting a referendum initiative, rival signature collection campaigns have to be wound up and further questions on a given subject are no longer allowed to be submitted.
Under the amendment, the government or the president cannot initiate referendums on subjects for which signatures are already being collected.
Source: www.hungarymatters.hu
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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