Issues that can be proposed by citizens using the initiative process at the national level

Latvia

Latvia

Answer
  • Citizens' initiatives - constitutional amendments
  • Citizens' initiatives - legislative proposals
  • Citizens' initiatives - other issues
  • Agenda initiatives - constitutional amendments
  • Agenda initiatives - legislative proposals
Source

Constitution of the Republic of Latvia (last amended in 2005)http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=190856

  78. Electors, in number comprising not less than one tenth of the electorate, have the right to submit a fully elaborated draft of an amendment to the Constitution or of a law to the President, who shall present it to the Saeima. If the Saeima does not adopt it without change as to its content, it shall then be submitted to national referendum.

 

Law on National Referendums, Legislative Initiativesand European Citizens’ Initiative (lastamended in 2012)

http://web.cvk.lv/pub/public/28862.html

Article 11.

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5) A national referendum shall be held if at least one-tenth of the electorate have proposed the dissolution of the Saeima in accordance with the procedure set out in Chapter IV2 of this Law.

Article 22

Not fewer than 10,000 Latvian citizens eligible to vote, upon indicating their full name and personal identity number, shall have the right to submit to the Central Election Commission a fully elaborated draft law or a draft amendment to the Constitution. Not earlier than 12 months before the submission of the draft law or the draft amendment to the Constitution, each signature must be certified by a sworn notary public or a local government authority that performs notarial functions.

(As amended by the 8 May 2003 Law and the 6 April Law.)

Comment
Other issues - dissolution of Parliament
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