Swiss way is double majority
responsibility of West Sussex County Council who have just announced the increase in costs for pavement seating.
Chichester District Council is just one of numerous local organisations in partnership with Petworth Vision; the National Trust, South Downs National Park Authority and Petworth Primary School to name a few. Petworth Town Council was a founding partner but has now chosen to distance itself. Nevertheless various charitable bodies have considered the aims and activities of Petworth Vision worthy of grant funding.
Petworth Vision has been involved in ‘Be the Change’, a scheme to help young people, the provision of computer classes for seniors, Derek Hunnikin’s detailed reply (Observer, August
29) to letters from Keith Tunstall, John Walton and myself (August 8, 15 and 8 respectively) deserves a response; so to take just one of his points:
In support of his view of the validity of the EU Referendum result, Mr Hunnikin cites Switzerland where, he states, “Swiss MPS implement the result of referendums regardless of the percentage of the majority or the number that abstained.”
Mr Hunnikin seems unaware that had the UK followed the Swiss process, the EU Referendum result would have been Remain.
The facts are that “In Switzerland, the passing of a constitutional amendment by popular vote requires a double majority; not only must a majority of people vote for the amendment but a majority of cantons must also give their consent. This is to prevent a larger canton from foisting amendments onto the smaller ones and vice versa.” https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/double_majority
Because Swiss cantons are
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