Key Moment: Debate over the adoption of a federal constitution.

It is then submitted to public referendum for ratification.

It must then forthwith be put to a referendum for ratification.

Referendum on Ratification of the New Collective Agreement: March 28 to 31

This procedure would conclude with a referendum on the newly written constitution.

Ratification Referendum Results Members were invited to vote on the following question: “Do you accept the proposed …

If negotiations were fruitful, our ensuing new status would be submitted to us by referendum.

In addition to this the campaign for the referendum for the European Constitution planned for the first half of 2006, is due to start in September.

On 16 April 2005, Gianni Marsilli, leader writer for the Italian daily newspaper L’Unità, considers the consequences of a possible victory of the ‘No’ vote in the referendum for the ratification of the Constitutional Treaty in France.

For example, in France’s 1992 referendum to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, the prospective autonomy of the French central bank was one of the strongest points in the campaign against adopting the euro.

For example, in France's 1992 referendum to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, the prospective autonomy of the French central bank was one of the strongest points in the campaign against adopting the euro.

In France, for example, a referendum to ratify a revision of the constitution is optional if the government initiates the revision but mandatory if it comes from parliament (Article 89).

Despite of all of these efforts made by the NNC, Local Unions and individual members to encourage voting, only 44.3 percent of the eligible UPS membership participated in the ratification referendum on the National Master Agreement.