71. If it wins, the PQ has pledged to call a referendum on Quebec sovereignty within months of taking power. 72. Arafat has accused Israel of riding roughshod over the autonomy accords by calling a referendum on any final deal and planning to keep in place all Jewish settlements. 73. As they did with an earlier peace plan, the Bosnian Serbs say they are considering calling a referendum. 74. But it has not given a clear commitment to call a referendum on joining the single currency. 75. Caldera defended the rights suspension in a presidential decree and offered to call a referendum so voters could decide if it was needed. 76. Defying Serbia and the international community, the Bosnian Serb parliament Wednesday again refused to embrace the latest peace plan and instead called a referendum on it. 77. The referendum was called in February after three weeks of protests in the main town Vukovar against electoral divisions making the Serbs a minority in some districts. 78. The parliament voted in favour of the new draft law after Kuchma threatened to call a referendum over its wording. 79. The referendum was called after a series of clashes between Zafy and Prime Minister Francisque Ravony, whom the president accused of bad management. 80. The two sides are threatening to call rival referendums appealing for support from the population to shore up their powers. |