AGAIN, ABOUT THE CONSULTATIVE REFERENDUM. PROS AND CONS
AGAIN, ABOUT THE CONSULTATIVE REFERENDUM. PROS AND CONS

Summary/Abstract: The current article has as starting point the initiative of the President of Romania to organize a consultative referendum simultaneously with the elections for the European Parliament. In this context, we are reiterating the debates about the pros and cons for such a referendum.For certain theoreticians and politicians, a referendum is the political miraculous solution or an easy mean to perform the fundamental reforms the society keeps requiring. On the other hand, the referendum is seen as a mean of weakening the representative government. Starting from these divergent points of view and accepting that the role of the referendum in modern democracies is controversial, the current paper pleads for a moderate approach.The institution of the referendum must be rationally used to avoid transforming it in a simple mean of manipulating the will of the people, but to be truly an element of political and social balance.

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