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San Marino citizens vote in a referendum on the legalization of abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy or in cases where the health of the mother or fetus is at risk.
2021-09-26

The city of Geneva, Switzerland, sets its minimum wage to CHF23 (US$25) per hour per the results of a September referendum, becoming the highest in the world.
2020-11-1

The preliminary results are announced for a referendum on the End of Life Choice Act 2019, which legalizes doctor-assisted euthanasia, with voters approving it. Another referendum on the legalization of the sale and use of cannabis was not approved by voters.
2020-10-30

A constituent assembly will be elected in April 2021 after 79% of the voters in the referendum chose this option to write the new Constitution.
2020-10-26

The Labour Party (New Caledonia) expresses its support for independence from France in the upcoming referendum, the party leader Louis Kotra Uregei says after abstaining in 2018.
2020-07-5

The Sidama people of Ethiopia go to the polls for a referendum on further autonomy for the Sidama Zone. If autonomy is approved, then local taxes, education, security and laws will be decided by the Sidama instead of the government of Ethiopia.
2019-11-20

A petition calling for a second EU referendum has topped two million signatures – more than doubling the highest signed in UK parliamentary history.
2016-06-25

An Italian appeals court upholds the conviction of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on tax fraud and sentences him to four years in prison.
2013-05-8

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announces a referendum to decide whether indigenous Australians should be recognised in the Constitution.
2010-11-8