{"id":443674,"date":"2017-03-28T22:07:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=443674"},"modified":"2017-03-29T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T11:04:56","slug":"igor-dodon-signs-decree-initiate-consultative-referendum-4-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/igor-dodon-signs-decree-initiate-consultative-referendum-4-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Dodon signs decree to initiate consultative referendum on 4 topics"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

On March 28th, the President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, presented his report on the first 100 days of his Presidential term.<\/p>\n

According to Agora.md<\/a>, besides his\u00a0achieved goals, Dodon came up with a new initiative: he signed a\u00a0decree to initiate a consultative referendum.<\/p>\n

The President says he decided to use referendum because the Parliament does not accept his proposals:<\/p>\n

“I promised to you that I will be a President close to the people. I initiated several modifications. The Parliament is categorically against. I today decided to initiate a consultative referendum on\u00a0four topics. The decree cannot be canceled”,\u00a0<\/em>declared Dodon.<\/p>\n

The national referendum planned for 24 September 2017 will have four topics of debate:<\/p>\n

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  1. “Do you support cancelling the Law of the Billion?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
  2. “Do you support giving to the President of Moldova additional rights to dissolve the Parliament and (call for) preliminary Parliamentary elections?”<\/li>\n
  3. “Do you support reducing the number of deputies from 101 to 71?”<\/li>\n
  4. “Do you support the studying of “History of Moldova” in education institutions?”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On this very last question, Dodon commented:<\/p>\n

    “In Romania they don’t learn the History of Romanians. Why should we learn their history?”<\/em>, said he, referring to the History of Romanians studied in the schools of Moldova.<\/p>\n