At today's session, the government of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Bill on Referendum and People's Initiative, which will enable citizens to effectively exercise their constitutionally guaranteed right to participate in the exercise of power through popular initiative and referendum.
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Government adopts Bill on Referendum, People's Initiative
Belgrade,
9 November 2021
The new law eliminates the shortcomings of a number of solutions from the current law, due to which citizens rarely used the institutes of referendums and people's initiatives in practice.
Due to the fact that the current law was passed in 1994, the new bill contains numerous harmonisations with the Constitution, primarily in terms of abolishing the mandatory threshold for the required number of voters as a condition for the success of the referendum, as well as to regulate all types of referendums envisaged under the Constitution.
The solutions are based on the recommendations of the Council of Europe from the "Revised Code of Good Practice in the Field of Referendums" from October 2020.
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