770:. Under current Bulgarian law a referendum is mandatory if a petition receives at least five hundred thousand signatures. Supporters claimed to have 560,000 signatures on the petition, giving Parliament three months (until early June) to authenticate the signatures. Numerous signatures were nullified, however, and so the requirement of half of million authentic signatures was missed. Still, there were enough signatures to put the content up for debate before parliament. When the debate came in June, however, lawmakers rejected the idea of holding the referendum.
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1374:2024 (Jun)
1359:2021 (Nov)
1354:2021 (Jul)
1349:2021 (Apr)
1219:1923 (Nov)
1214:1923 (Apr)
1189:1911 (Sep)
1184:1911 (Jun)
1144:1893 (Jul)
1139:1893 (Apr)
1094:1879 (Jan)
882:References
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143:2,587,593
51:2015-10-25
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111:1,883,411
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921:31 March
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