A referendum on amendments in the pensions law was held in Latvia on 23 August 2008.[1] It failed due to low turnout, as 453,730 votes (half of the votes cast in the previous parliamentary election) would have been necessary to make it valid.[2] If it had succeeded, minimum pensions would have been tied (until the end of 2009) to the government-set subsistence benefit level with a higher coefficient than earlier, in effect tripling the minimum pension from 50 lati to at least 135 lati. The referendum was strongly supported by an organisation called Society for Different Politics, which aimed to become a political party.[3]
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Are you in favor of the legislative project to amend the National Pensions Act? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outcome | Proposal failed due to low voter turnout | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
edit| Choice | Votes | % |
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 No
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12,524 | 3.61 |
| Yes | 333,799 | 96.15 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 794 | 0.23 |
| Total votes | 346,323 | 100.00 |
| Turnout required | 50.00 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,516,097 | 38.16 |
| Source: CVK, C2D | ||
References
edit- ^ "Interactive investor – the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform".
- ^ "Earth Times: Show/227677,latvian-populist-referendum-on-pensions-fails-to-gain-quorum.HTML". Archived from the original on 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ^ http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1276862&lang=EN[permanent dead link]
External links
edit- The amendment voted on(in Latvian)
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