A Constitutional Referendum to Delegitimize the Constitution
The Polish President Andrzej Duda has just announced that on 10 and 11 November a referendum will be held in Poland on the need to amend the Constitution, in which he will put to the Polish people...
View Article„Do not go. Do not vote“: an Interview with WOJCIECH SADURSKI
The Polish President Andrzej Duda has published a list of questions about the Polish constitution he intends to present to the people in November. What do you make of that? President Duda has been...
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“Vote Yes for a Safe Italy” or “Vote No to Defend the Constitution”: Italian...
‘In order to obtain a united Europe against terrorism, we need a strong country, with a Constitution that gives stability’.1 In this way, Maria Elena Boschi, the Italian Minister for Constitutional...
View ArticleMarine Le Pen’s Constitutional Programme on the European Union: Use, Misuse...
On February 2nd, the French newspaper Le Monde published an interview with Marine Le Pen, leader of the most important far-right party the National Front and candidate for the presidential elections....
View ArticleTürkei-Referendum vor dem EGMR: Warum der Gang nach Straßburg diesmal wohl...
Nachdem die türkische Wahlkommission den Antrag einiger Oppositionsparteien auf Annullierung des Verfassungsreferendums vom 16. April verworfen hat, erwägt die oppositionelle CHP Medienberichten...
View ArticleWhy the Announced Constitutional Referendum in Poland is not a Constitutional...
The President of Poland has announced that a constitutional referendum will be held in 2018. This is surprising for at least two reasons. First, according to the Polish Constitution, a constitutional...
View ArticleThe Constitutional Referendum in Turkey: A far Stretch from Right to Free...
The constitutional referendum of April 16 in Turkey left the “no” voters uncertain, if even doubtful, about the actual result. The main reason is the controversial decision of the Supreme Board of...
View ArticleWhy Do We Need International Legal Standards for Constitutional Referendums?
Recently the use of constitutional referendums has become increasingly common in Europe and beyond. National governments tend to initiate or support referendums to settle constitutional questions. For...
View ArticleChile and COVID-19: A Constitutional Authoritarian Temptation
Introduction The Chilean response to COVID-19 has adopted two approaches: first, the use of emergency powers; and second, the use of ordinary legislation and constitutional amendment. Among the...
View ArticleConstitutional Dullness
Should the number of Italy’s Members of Parliament (MPs) be reduced from 945 to 600? Italian citizens will decide on that question in a constitutional referendum that will take place in less than two...
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View ArticleSearching for a Government
On Saturday, 21 January 2023, Slovak voters had the opportunity to use their constitutional right to vote in a referendum for the ninth time in the Slovak post-1993 history. More than one million...
View ArticleA First Nations Voice to Parliament
On 27 May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ‘from all points of the southern sky’ gathered on the red dust of Mutitjulu to issue the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Grounded in their...
View ArticleA Frozen Constitution in a Sunburnt Country
Australia’s Constitution remains frozen, with the loss of a referendum on 14 October 2023. Only eight out of forty-five national referendums to amend the Constitution have succeeded, with no...
View ArticleRejecting Lip Service or Validating 1930s Family Values?
On 8th March 2024, the Irish people rejected two separate constitutional referendums on family and care in an overwhelming no vote. These amendments aimed to update a conservative and gendered ideal of...
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