Plasterk into question funding referendum

He thinks that there is still a good need to look at the rules.

Of the approximately 2 million granted for the Ukraine referendum, has also been partly taken up by political parties. Plasterk wonders if it really meant was "we're going to fund parties so they can advertise for themselves."

He thinks that there is still a good need to look at the rules.

Of the approximately 2 million granted for the Ukraine referendum, has also been partly taken up by political parties. Plasterk wonders if it really meant was "we're going to fund parties so they can advertise for themselves."
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Where the next referendum about?

After the consultative referendum on the association agreement with Ukraine is already thinking about new referendums, for example, the TTIP-trade agreement between the EU and the US

To keep the referendums, 300,000 signatures are needed. Platform TTIP Referendum says there now to have collected more than 84,000.

The Advisory Referendum Act, which took effect in July 2015, states that referendums can only go about a law that has been adopted and ratified, but has not yet entered into force. The TTIP-trade agreement does not yet exist, it is still in the negotiation phase.

The Electoral Council keeps track of the laws qualify for a referendum. The fact that there are currently ten.

Below example, the Act amending the Media Act, which was State Secretary Dekker deep through the knees. Also about the environmental code or "the biggest change in the law since the Constitution" can be organized a referendum.
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Backroom

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said it could take weeks or months before it becomes clear what the government will do with the outcome of the referendum. "It is a complex process, it is best served by the backroom."

Furthermore, he wants nothing to lose, even if it was a success or not. Rutte: "Even I would now like to talk about it is a fact that the turnout was large enough to let the validly fact is that the 'no' camp won..."

The Lower House debate Wednesday on the referendum.

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