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E. Further issues on referendums


Section III - Confirmatory referendum


Article 38 – Subject matter. The Bill provides that confirmatory referendums are possible on laws, regulations and administrative acts, but also on their individual provisions. This could lead to some incoherence in the legislation – which the electorate would be allowed to amend through the selective abrogation of texts that they have never seen applied – or an excessive numbers of questions put to the electorate on the same piece of legislation. It is also unclear how a confirmatory referendum can concern the “date and the number of the Official Bulletin [where a law was published]” and such other “details”. The issue of referendums on matters falling under the competence of the executive has already been addressed above.