referendum
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Created in response to the failure of a 1998 referendum to legalize abortion in her native Portugal, Rego’s suite offers harrowing views of women who have undergone the procedure illegally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
"It's about establishing a threshold, it's not a referendum," said the SDLP's Séamas de Faoite.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
If Meloni wins this vote she has grand political ambitions, including increasing the powers of her own office in a future referendum.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
She also argued her opponents were only turning all this into a referendum on her rule because they couldn't fault the reform itself.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
The suffragists complained that the referendum wasn’t binding, and the antis complained that they were expected to vote in order to show that they didn’t want the vote.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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