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2009 will see local and national elections in Portugal (this means 3 calls for vote, if you include the European ones). As far as I know the dates are not settled for the other two (there were talks of merging local and national votes - but the ruling "socialist" party opposes).

No referendums are on the agenda there (but a arguably broken promise to referendum the European constitution should be noted): The ruling party promised to referendum the EU constitution, but they decided against it on the justification that the follow-up (Lisbon treaty) was not really a constitution. Everybody knows they broke the promise for another reason: It would set a "bad example" for other EU countries (i.e., the country where the treaty was signed calling in a referendum). The referendum would be expected to pass very easily (both based on the popularity of the EU and the national pride of having a treaty called "Lisbon").

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness - Bertrand Russell

by tiagoantao (put_my_login_here <> gmail com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 07:45:32 AM EST
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