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RE: Why european countries don't have referendums or initiatives like us states do?

in #usa • 7 years ago

i didnt toook notes, but heres some referendum every a bit. its even annoying in a way.

most popular are those about independence, or joining or leaving EU or NATO, but theres a bunch of other ones. my country had one last year, and it was about deciding about Day of the republic.

detail i remembered is that Swiss had near 200 referendums in the last 20 yrs, 8 or 9 this year only.

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      France suffers from many things, and one of them is colonial disease.

      While other colonial empires pulled back, France kept exploiting theirs. Even today.

      As a result of doing it decade after decade, France became destination for people from their squeezed out countries.

      Now if they let people do referendum, im afraid majority could decide about termination of some long term practices of government. Like CFA, or administering any overseas territory, with such problems in administering their own country.