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Despite the best efforts of the BBC, which has forgotten what the first B in its name stands for, the separatist Scottish Nationalist Party has failed for the second election in a row to win a majority in the Scottish Parliament. The BBC, which over Brexit and the Union has …

Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday during a visit to the English midlands, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that most people around Scotland and Britain do not think the country should be holding a second referendum on Scottish independence. The Prime Minister’s comments come as Scotland takes to the …

“I don’t believe we should propose a referendum right at this moment,” Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told BBC Radio 4 on Friday morning, adding that the country’s current problems had to be tackled first.   In what may be seen as a U-turn for the Scottish leader, Sturgeon said she …

Compare and contrast. On the issue of whether Britain should leave the EU we’ve had: A national referendum. Four years of debates in Parliament on how/when/under what conditions we should leave. In fact, for the period May 2016 until March 2020, it seemed MPs were talking about nothing else. No …

On Sunday, almost exactly a year after protests over inequality erupted in the country, Chileans voted in a landslide to adopt a new constitution that will ditch the one enshrined in 1980 under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.  As Robert Packenham and William Ratliff wrote in a 2007 …

Supporters of the “Left front” in Krasnodar took to the pickets with the requirement of a referendum for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. As the correspondent “of Rosbalt”, the representative of the organization Evgeniya Klimchuk, the shares are held on city streets. “As the mayor’s office does …

For the adoption of amendments to the Constitution, which proposed to discuss President Vladimir Putin, will be used the referendum as “another form of” public discussion. So commented the head of the CEC of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, reports “Interfax”. According to her, based on the words of Putin …

The head of state committed to openness in the discussion of important issues in the country and does not want to make decisions behind closed doors. President Vladimir Zelensky said that the decision on the conclusion of peace agreements with Russia on the referendum has no legislative initiative, and is …

Yesterday the newly elected President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that he intends to bring the country to a referendum. Theme vote – negotiations with Russia. It responded to his statement, the Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on information policy Alexei Pushkov. He stressed that for negotiations it is …

Ukraine is firmly on course for Euro-Atlantic integration, said the President. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that in the near future of Ukrainians expect a referendum on entering NATO and the European Union. In addition, the guarantor is confident in their positive results. He stated this at a …