How many signatures are required to start the formal decision making stage of a direct democracy mechanism?
Finland
Answer
Agenda Initiative - fixed number
Source
THE FINNISH CONSTITUTION
(Adopted1999; last amended 2011)
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/1999/en19990731.pdf
Section 53, sub-section 3: At least fifty thousand Finnishcitizens entitled to vote have the right to submit an initiative for theenactment of an Act to the Parliament, as provided by an Act.
Comment
50,000 citizens
