People power vote shot down

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People power vote shot down

Aug 06, 2008
By Talis Saule Archdeacon

THEN AND NOW: People power was at it height 17 years ago during the singing revolution. Nowadays things are a bit more tame.

RIGA - A vote giving people the right to throw out their politicians has failed to pass, preliminary results indicate. The landmark referendum would have altered the constitution to give Latvian citizens the right to directly dissolve the legislature by popular vote. However, the high proportion of voters who favored the amendments – nearly 97 percent – prompted President Valdis Zatlers to call for Parliament to consider adopting similar amendments despite the failed vote. “We have ...

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