Talk:2010 Croatian labour law referendum

Premature?

This article is probably a bit premature as it still remains to be seen whether the referendum will actually take place. The law which regulates referendums is very vague at the moment and as things currenly stand the parliament would have to pass a new law to make the referendum possible. This doesn't seem likely as the idea of the referendum is to prevent changes to the labour law which were proposed by the same ruling party which has the majority in the parliament. Even if all legal preconditions are met, it would still take several months before the actual referendum took place. Until things get clearer and/or an actual date of the referendum is set this is just an initiative with 720,000 voters' signatures, and as such should probably be included into the (currently non-existing) article titled List of Croatian initiatives and referendums or Referendums in Croatia, which could look like something like the List of Swiss federal referendums or Referendums in New Zealand or Initiatives and referendums in the United States articles. Timbouctou (talk) 10:38, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it's premature – the law states a referendum will have to be held, so for now it's to be assumed that a referendum will indeed be held. It's notable either way, even if events should take place to prevent it from happening, as it's an initiative with 20% of voters' signatures... —Nightstallion 14:34, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, you were right – it's cancelled. Still a notable event, I'd say. —Nightstallion 01:10, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't believe it's accurate to say that it's cancelled just yet. The official submission was already made and the verification of signatures happened. The referendum question does not talk about specific changes (those now rescinded), it just says "are you against changes to current law". The Parliamentary committee and/or the Constitutional court will need to decide whether the lack of pending changes constitutes a valid reason to stop the procedure that is already in motion. Indeed, those pending changes weren't even officially submitted to Parliament even, so they can't have been explicitly referenced as such, hence their revocation doesn't have to mean anything. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:40, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

BTW this can be confirmed in the Croatian media, e.g.: [1] --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:42, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

It's official now. The constitutonal court scrapped the petition as "[the required] preconditions for the referendum ceased to exist once the government revoked their proposition for the labour law reform". I still propose creating an Initiatives and referendums in Croatia article which would include all the failed referendum initiatives we've had so far (the More je kopno initiative should be included there too). Timbouctou 10:26, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Yep. Feel free to move this article over there and reshape. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 12:18, 20 October 2010 (UTC)