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SaS Has 350,000 Signatures Required for Referendum
Thursday 28 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 28 (TASR) - Non-parliamentary party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) after a year has collected the 350,000 signatures it needs to call a referendum in Slovakia, SaS chairman Richard Sulik told TASR on Thursday.
"We're ready to submit an application for calling a referendum, accompanied by the sufficient number of signatures. If President Ivan Gasparovic doesn't turn to the Constitutional Court vis-a-vis the issues that are the subject of the referendum, we'll submit the application for calling the referendum on February 17. After meeting all the Constitutional requirements, only June 12 - the date of the general election - can be taken into consideration," wrote Sulik in his blog.
"The other option is for the president to turn to the Court, in which case we'll file a request (to call the referendum) in late May, so that the referendum can take place on the day of the municipal elections," added Sulik.
If the Constitutional Court declares some of the planned referendum's six questions anti-constitutional, the referendum will include the ones that are not censured.
The six questions concern: abolishing television and radio licence fees, curbing MPs' immunity, reducing the number of MPs from 150 to 100, setting a maximum purchase price for cars used by government officials, assistance in making internet voting in elections available, and removing public officials' right to reply (as included in the current Press Act of 2008).
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