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The limitations introduced by the law for provincial referendums (Article 49) seem appropriate. In conformity with the general rule on conformity with superior law (Article 45), the draft provides that the referendum may only address issues within the competence of the province and its Assembly. The limitations relating to the subject of the referendum, that is the exclusion of the proposal to repeal the statute of the autonomous province, as well as of budgetary and electoral competences, seem justified too. Similar provisions apply mutatis mutandis, to the local selfgovernment unit referendum (Article 51).