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Liestalers want park and credit

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com November 20, 2023

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There were two referendums in Liestal. Both have to do with a redesign on the Orisbach.

In a referendum, the construction loan for the new park between the train station and the old town of Liestal was approved with 54.2 percent. 1,996 votes were received for the resolution, while 1,777 voters voted against it. In a second vote, 2,038 citizens supported the park at Orisbach, while 1,725 voted against it. Voter turnout was around 40 percent in each case. Both templates are linked to each other. The district planning creates the building regulations for the city park and the new construction of the post office building near the train station. The loan for the “Am Orisbach” city park amounts to around 5.7 million francs. Since contributions from third parties are expected, the net costs for the city of Liestal are expected to be between 0.5 and 0.8 million francs. Today’s post office building stands on the bed of the Orisbach, which today flows in a concrete channel. After the new building, it will be uncovered, renatured and provided with a city park. The parking spaces will be moved to the planned parking garage on the Lüdin area. The residents’ council approved the neighborhood planning in May 2023 and unanimously decided to submit this to a referendum.

2023-11-20 21:30:54
#Liestalers #park #credit

November 20, 2023 0 comments

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SP Leader Marijnissen Defends Bill for Introduction of Binding Corrective Referendum in Senate

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com October 3, 2023

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NieuwsuurMarijnissen (SP) defends the bill for the introduction of a binding corrective referendum in the Senate

It has been a topic of discussion in politics for decades, but this time it could easily continue: the introduction of a corrective binding referendum. The private member’s bill appears to have a large majority in the Senate today. However, this is not yet a settled matter.

A corrective binding referendum means that voters can still reject laws that have already been adopted. Because it concerns a constitutional amendment, the bill must pass the Senate and House of Representatives again after the elections. Then there must be a two-thirds majority in both Houses.

At the beginning of this year, SP MP Renske Leijten submitted a proposal for the introduction of a binding corrective referendum. At the time, Leijten called it a strengthening of democracy because “a growing group of people do not feel represented by politicians and policymakers”. The House of Representatives agreed in February. Today, SP leader Lilian Marijnissen defended the proposal in the Senate and a large majority also seems to vote in favor of it.

Paul Bovend’eert, professor of constitutional law at Radboud University, says that a referendum “can be a nice addition to the representative democracy we have in our country.”

Like Leijten, Bovend’eert thinks that a referendum can contribute to restoring confidence in politics. “By involving citizens more in government and politics, you gain more trust. You can at least offer voters the opportunity to oppose bills that the majority of them do not like at all.”

Night of Wiegel

In 1999, the introduction of a corrective referendum came very close, but it failed due to the unexpected vote against it in the Senate by VVD member Hans Wiegel. This event became known as the ‘Night of Wiegel’ and led to a cabinet crisis.

Since then, several consultative referendums have been organized. In 2005 on the European Constitution, in 2016 on the association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine and in 2018 on the Intelligence Act. In all cases a majority voted against.

Because these were advisory referenda, politicians in principle did not have to worry about the outcome. In the case of the referendum on the European Constitution, the government did so: the bill was withdrawn. After the other two referenda, the government parties decided to adjust the bills in order – in their view – to respect the outcome.

“Everyone found that very unsatisfactory. Rightly so,” says Bovend’eert. “That is why a binding referendum is now pending, in which the voters will actually make the final judgment on the bill.”

No race run

VVD and CDA have traditionally been against anchoring a referendum in the constitution. Other parties, such as PvdA, GroenLinks and D66, regularly changed their opinion. “The two-thirds majority needed for a constitutional amendment has never really been in sight,” said Bovend’eert.

Even now, the race is not yet over, but because the CDA has significantly fewer seats than 25 years ago, and parties such as BBB and NSC have said they are in favor of the referendum, the change in the law now seems to have a chance of success.

What may help is that the SP does not say anything about the precise details, such as politically sensitive matters such as the turnout percentage that must be achieved. This must be arranged at a later stage in another law.

2023-10-03 19:46:03
#referendum #law #decades #debate

October 3, 2023 0 comments

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Challenging Pedro Sánchez: Catalán Spokesman Urges Negotiations on “Catalan Brexit” for Government Investiture

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com August 12, 2023

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Antoni Castellà, political spokesman for Democrats of Catalonia, member of the JxCat group in Parliament and spokesman for the Consejo de la República led by Carles Puigdemont, has challenged Pedro Sánchez to negotiate “Catalan Brexit” if he wants to be invested as the new president of Gobierno

In an interview with EFE, Castellà stated that, although the key to the investiture is in the hands of the seven JxCat deputies in Congress, now “the PSOE and PP have the ball in their court”, since they are their candidates for the Moncloa who must say if they are willing to open a negotiation, not on more regional powers, but on the “sovereignty” of Catalonia.

Given the silence that JxCat has imposed on itself at the start of the investiture talks, Castellà’s is one of the only voices in this political space willing to position itself, since, although it is part of the Junts group in Parliament and He is a close collaborator of Puigdemont in the Council of the Republic, he has more room for manoeuvre, since his party is Demòcrates, a pro-independence split of the extinct Unió Democràtica.

Castellà, who belongs to the independence sector that most vehemently claims the validity of the unilateral referendum of October 1, 2017 and who presented himself as a JxCat candidate for the Senate in the general elections of July 23, has urged the PSOE to “change the frame of mind”.

Catalonia, he has warned, did not organize 1-O to now negotiate “more powers or an economic concert”, but rather “there is a before and after” of 2017.

The “most relevant” negotiation

“Any negotiation that has to do with powers we already did with the new Statute”, which ended up being cut by the Constitutional Court, he recalled.

After 23J, he said, a “historic” negotiation could be opened, the most relevant since the Transition”, in which “the independence movement may be willing to discuss self-determination and amnesty, the conditions, the deadlines, how the assets are agreed upon, what temporality of co-sovereignty can there be: all this is negotiable”.

Instead, in his opinion, Sánchez must be clear that it is not negotiable that “Catalonia is a nation and that its sovereignty rests with the people of Catalonia.”

“The great underlying discussion is: are you willing to negotiate the Catalan ‘Brexit’? We are, but you must situate yourself in this mental framework. Any other framework is not acceptable, because it places us before 1-O, and this does not It would make sense,” he stressed.

The constitutional framework

Faced with the appeals of the socialists to the independence movement to lower their “maximalist” conditions and seek an agreement within the Constitution, he has pointed out that “the constitutional framework is the corset that the PSOE itself imposes.”

“It is not our problem. I put on the corset of the right to self-determination and amnesty, they put on the corset of the constitutional framework,” he argued.

In his opinion, the independence movement must be “coherent with what it has defended during the campaign” of 23J and “comply exactly with what it has said”, without lowering the bar of its conditions.

“This will be the cotton test to find out if the PSOE, the PP, the Crown, the State take seriously that this is a negotiation in terms of geopolitics,” he added.

Invites PSOE and Sumar to reflect

Until now, the PSOE has defended that “global sovereignty and territorial integrity is not negotiable”, so “if they do not move from this framework, there is no possibility of an agreement”, it has warned.

Those from PSOE and Sumar warn that an electoral repetition would imply giving PP and Vox a second chance to achieve a sufficient majority, according to Castellà, “must decide if they prefer” to discuss the “recognition of Catalonia as a nation” or “give it a chance on the right”.

What is in question is, in his opinion, “whether a whole sector of the left prefers a good result from Vox, rather than recognizing the Catalan national fact.”

“This is the reflection that the Spanish left should make,” he stressed.

2023-08-12 09:48:25
#JxCat #deputy #challenges #Sánchez #address #Catalan #Brexit

August 12, 2023 0 comments

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An unsatisfactory divorce | News La Tribuna de Cuenca

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com January 29, 2023

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It was an eternal divorce process. After a tight majority of the British (almost 52 percent) voted in a referendum in June 2016 in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, the negotiating parties took almost five years to reach a Withdrawal Agreement that minimally satisfied both parties. Negotiations were arduous, the deadlines initially set for them to come to fruition had to be extended up to three times, abrupt changes occurred in the Downing Street Government to try to close a consensual pact and, finally, on January 31, 2020 London and Brussels officially separated. But not definitive. The transition period lasted another 11 months and the process culminated on the last day of that year, with the promise of a more prosperous future for the British nation, now freed from the control of the community bloc.

Three years later, the Brexit balance sheet is still plagued with shadows. The country is in political chaos and the economy is not bouncing back, largely due to the privileges lost after the separation. A separation whose terms, moreover, one of the parties intends to break: the United Kingdom wants to modify the Protocol for Northern Ireland, one of the most thorny points and guilty, precisely, of the fact that the talks lasted so long. Its application guarantees the absence of a physical border on the island of Ireland, not only to maintain trade relations, but also to avoid new conflicts such as those experienced at the end of the last century and guarantee the Good Friday Agreement.

London ensures that this pact causes social and political problems in the region. In fact, it does not comply and threatens to unilaterally eliminate its most controversial provisions if Brussels does not agree to negotiate changes. The EU is willing to resume dialogue, but, of course, not to succumb to “blackmail”, although it is confident that an understanding can finally be reached with the new British authorities. And it is that the departure of Boris Johnson from the British Government could open the door to an improvement in relations between the parties.

Broken promises

Three years after the definitive exit from the EU, the United Kingdom -which this year would have celebrated half a century as a community partner, since it joined the group in January 1973-, the promises of those who promoted Brexit, mainly economic ones, have not been have materialized. Moreover, the consequences of those who urged to bet on permanence are beginning to be experienced.

In the financial field, inflation has been unleashed, trade relations have deflated -exports have fallen more than 30% since 2020- and, according to experts, the British economy has grown 5% less in recent years. than if the country had continued in the bloc. In addition, in the labor aspect, Brexit has left a deficit of 330,000 workers, the equivalent of 1 percent of the labor force, after the end of the free movement of people. Something that has also caused 2,500 Britons to have been expelled from different EU countries for not complying with residence permits.

As regards immigration, far from appeasing the arrivals of foreigners, the landings of undocumented to the coasts are unleashed and only last year the record number of 45,700 irregulars who illegally crossed the English Channel was reached.

Citizens also consider that their country has lost its strategic position in the international arena and, therefore, its influence on the decisions of the West has fallen, as has happened in the war in Ukraine. For this reason, more and more British people consider that Brexit was a mistake because it has generated more problems than benefits. A recent survey indicates that 57 percent of the population believes that the divorce was a “mistake” and almost two thirds of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom advocate a new referendum that, if held this year, would register 68 percent. percent of votes that would support a return to the EU. But first the political class and the community authorities would have to bet on it. And that does seem difficult.

January 29, 2023 0 comments

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Elon Musk announces his resignation from the presidency of Twitter, after a referendum on his tenure in office

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com December 20, 2022

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Elon Musk has announced his resignation from Twitter’s presidency, following a Twitter referendum on remaining in his position, according to the latest news broadcast by Al-Arabiya channel earlier.

Previously, Elon Musk said there is no one to take over Twitter if he intends to step down as CEO.

Responding to a Twitter user who assumed Musk had already picked a new leader for Twitter, the billionaire tweeted, “Nobody wants a job that can actually keep Twitter alive,” according to the website. Business Insider.

His comments came after he tweeted a poll asking his followers if he should step down as head of Twitter and said he would “support the results”.“.

Musk posted several tweets referencing his polls: “The question isn’t finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

December 20, 2022 0 comments

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