I should have opposed the plebiscite for a number of reasons.
My one doubt about the statement is the reference to plebiscites.
I do not subscribe to the idea of a plebiscite.
Finally, the members of every society should have the right to reject or to ratify their political constitution by regular plebiscites in which each adult has one vote.
It is no coincidence that this programme began at the same time that the new constitution (approved by a plebiscite one year earlier) came into effect.
Less than 5% of the people have voted for independence in recent elections and plebiscites, so independence does not seem to be a likely political status in the near future.
In 1996 and 1999 two attempts to repeal the pension law by requesting a referendum and a plebiscite were rejected by the electoral court on legal grounds.
The authors focus on the 1988 plebiscite and subsequent transition to democracy in order to claim that these domestic changes are clear evidence of the spiral model at work.
