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Endorsement, abstention and blank ballot
A critique to the so-called “plebiscite for peace” is that it replaced the “participation threshold” (UP) for an “approval threshold” (UA), which deprives abstention from having legal effects. The latter would be anti-democratic and would violate the right to “active abstention,” which the Constitutional Court has recognized in citizen participation mechanisms such as referendums, plebiscites or consultations.
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