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DD002

Direct Democracy Provisions (National Level)
Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Direct Democracy Procedures at the national level?
Answer: a. Yes
Comments:
Source: Law on Referendum on a national level; https://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2005/02/04/n1/jo Constitution, Art. 51(7), 114: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009 Direct Democracy Database: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/country?country=130&database_theme=309
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD003

Mandatory referendums (national level)
Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Mandatory Referendums at the national level?
Answer: b. No
Comments:
Source: Law on Referendum on a national level; https://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2005/02/04/n1/jo Constitution, Art. 51(7), 114: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009 Direct Democracy Database: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/country?country=130&database_theme=309
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD004

Optional referendums (national level)
Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Optional Referendums at the national level?
Answer: a. Yes
Comments:
Source: Law on Referendum on a national level; https://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2005/02/04/n1/jo Constitution, Art. 51(7), 114: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD005

Citizens' Initiatives (national level)
Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Citizen’s Initiatives at national level?
Answer: a. Yes
Comments: Any revision of the Constitution must be adopted in the same terms by the Chamber of Deputies in two successive votes, separated by an interval of at least three months. No revision will be adopted if it has not obtained at least two-thirds of the votes of the members of the Chamber; votes by proxy will not be admitted. The text adopted in the first reading by the Chamber of Deputies is submitted to a referendum, which substitutes for the second vote of the Chamber, if in the two months following the first vote demand for it is made, either by more than a quarter of the members of the Chamber, or by twenty-five thousand electors inscribed in the electoral lists for legislative elections. The revision can only be adopted if it receives the majority of the valid suffrage expressed. The law governs the modalities of organization of the referendum.
Source: Direct Democracy Database: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/country?country=130&database_theme=309 Constitution, Art. 114: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD006

Agenda Initiatives (national level)
Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Agenda Initiatives at national level?
Answer: b. No
Comments:
Source: Direct Democracy Database: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/country?country=130&database_theme=309 Constitution: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD007


Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Recalls at national level?
Answer: b. No
Comments:
Source: Direct Democracy Database: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/country?country=130&database_theme=309 Constitution: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD129


Question:Are the results of referenda always binding, never binding or sometimes binding?
Answer: b. Sometimes binding
Comments: No revision will be adopted if it has not obtained at least two-thirds of the votes of the members of the Chamber; votes by proxy will not be admitted. The text adopted in the first reading by the Chamber of Deputies is submitted to a referendum, which substitutes for the second vote of the Chamber, if in the two months following the first vote demand for it is made[,] either by more than a quarter of the members of the Chamber, or by twenty-five thousand electors inscribed in the electoral lists for legislative elections. The revision can only be adopted if it receives the majority of the valid suffrage expressed. The law governs the modalities of organization of the referendum.
Source: Constitution, Art. 114: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009
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DD130


Question:Are the types of issues to vote upon in a referendum constitutional changes only, other issues only or both constitutional and other issues?
Answer: c. Both constitutional and other issues
Comments:
Source: Law on Referendum on a national level; https://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2005/02/04/n1/jo Constitution, Art. 114: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Luxembourg_2009
Verified: 2024/11/21
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DD131


Question:Are there any Legal Provisions for Direct Democracy at sub-national levels (regional or local)?
Answer: b. No
Comments:
Source: Direct Democracy Database: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/country?country=130&database_theme=309
Verified: 2024/11/21
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