Politics

Civil Initiative Claims It Has Enough Signatures for Referendum

By 30 May 2018

ZAGREB, May 30, 2018 - "The People Decide" civil initiative announced on Facebook on Tuesday it had collected a sufficient number of signatures to call a referendum on amendments to the election system.

"The people have decided: We have a referendum", according to a Facebook post written by the civil initiative, which did not specify how many signatures it managed to collect.

The initiative started collecting signatures for the referendum on changes to the election legislation on May 13 and ended on Sunday, May 27.

The initiative had to collect approximately 375,000 signatures, which accounts for 10% of the total number of voters, in order for a referendum to be called.

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