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Constitutional safeguards for a referendum E


The Draft suggests to “further enhancing the role of a referendum as an effective means of direct democracy.” “The ultimate objective is to benefit to the maximum from the balancing impact of direct democracy on the exercise of state powers”. It further states:









The main conceptual approaches for the development of the institute of referendum include the following:









- giving priority to such an option of clarifying the scopes of referendums according to which issues regarding accession to international organizations resulting in partial restriction of state sovereignty are subject to referendum;










- specifying in the Constitution the scope of issues which may not be put on a referendum;










- establishing the practice of organizing referendums by civil initiative;










- establishing constitutional and legal basis for presentation of a prior opinion by the National Assembly concerning the issue or draft law put on a referendum by civil initiative.”