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Article 198
 

Decision Adoption by Local Referendum, Cancellation or Amendment


(1) A local referendum proposal shall be considered adopted by local referendum if it gains the majority of voters’ votes who participated in the referendum. The decision on the revocation of mayor is considered adopted through a local referendum, if it received the same number of votes or a more votes than the votes received by the mayor when he/she was elected, but not less than half of votes of persons who participated in the referendum. A referendum proposal is referred to as being adopted on the day upon which the referendum was conducted.


(2) When a mayor is recalled through referendum, the Central Electoral Commission calls the date of new elections for mayor, pursuant to Title V (Articles 118-140) thereof, which is to be applied correspondingly.


(3) An adopted referendum proposal may be cancelled or amended by local referendum, or by the decision of respective local council, adopted by the vote of 2/3 of the councillors, pursuant to the Law on Local Public Administration.