more than 32% of the vote. Two referendums were held on the new Law 194, which had legalized abortion. The first referendum was called by the Radical Party...

direct democracy in Italy. The Constitution of Italy only provides for four types of legally binding referendums: A popular referendum, in which the electorate...

An institutional referendum (Italian: referendum istituzionale, or referendum sulla forma istituzionale dello Stato) was held by universal suffrage in...

a referendum. 2 June 1946 Italian institutional referendum 12 May 1974 Italian divorce referendum 11 June 1978 Italian referendums 17–18 May 1981 Italian...

"no" cases, and results, for each referendum up to 1988. State and territory referendums "New South Wales Referendums". NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved...

direct democracy and especially for its promotion of referendums. In the 1960s, the PR launched the Italian League for Divorce (Lega Italiana per il Divorzio...

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. It is on a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with...

The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia, Italian: [ˈreɲɲo diˈtaːlja]) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia...

The Italian Parliament (Italian: Parlamento italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic. It is the representative body of Italian citizens...

Ten referendums were held in Switzerland during 2008. The first two were held on 24 February on business tax reform and aircraft noise. A further three...

Italians (Italian: italiani, Italian: [itaˈljaːni]) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region. Italians share a common core of culture...

unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia, Italian: [uniˈta ddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (/rɪˌsɔːrdʒɪˈmɛntoʊ/, Italian: [risordʒiˈmento];...

live in Italy. A significant proportion of Roma in Italy do not have Italian citizenship. Italy portal List of Italians Italian diaspora Italian Americans...

The Italian diaspora (Italian: emigrazione italiana, pronounced [emiɡratˈtsjoːne itaˈljaːna]) is the large-scale emigration of Italians from Italy. There...

Referendums in the Philippines are occasionally held at a national, regional or local level. Referendums can either by national or local in scope. In the...

optional referendum is a referendum which comes from a request by governmental authorities or the public. The best known types of optional referendums is the...

Scalfari and La Repubblica were pro-choice in the 1981 Italian referendums that kept legal abortion in Italy. La Repubblica also held a critical line towards...

referendum without needing the consent of the parliament or president. Similar referendums are used in around forty other countries, including Italy,...

Criminal Foreigners' Deportation” Portals: Politics Switzerland swissvotes.ch database on Swiss referendums official chronological list of referendums...

prevalent in Italy, especially in the southern part of the country, for centuries and have affected the social and economic life of many Italian regions....

The Italian Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was founded...

Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst...

voters or five Regional Councils, while neither propositional referendums nor referendums on a law regulating taxes, the budget, amnesty or pardon, or...

contrast to an optional referendum, which comes from either by public or legislative request. The actions that require mandatory referendums are set by law and...

mid-19th century, Italian unification, led by the House of Savoy, led to the establishment of an Italian nation-state. The new Kingdom of Italy quickly modernized...

in Italy (2007/2012); Apostolic Church in Italy (2007/2012); Italian Buddhist Union (2007/2012); Italian Hindu Union (2007/2012); Soka Gakkai Italian Buddhist...

whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to France during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in France. Italian migration into what is...

a 1981 referendum, but was rejected by nearly 68% of voters; another referendum aimed at eliminating the restrictions was rejected by 88.4%. Italian women...

The Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded...

King of Italy, until 2 June 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic...