The referendum is merely “a means of applying pressure” on the European Commission, during world trade talks in coming weeks.

几周后就将举行世界贸易谈判，公民投票只不过是爱尔兰对欧洲委员会“施加压力的手段”。

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The Seoul Election Commission said yesterday 2,157,722 people, 25.7 percent of the capital's eligible voters, cast ballots in the referendum.

首尔选举委员会八月廿四日公布，约有二百一十五万多人投票，占首都合资格选民近百分之廿六，但由于未能达到百分之卅三点三的最低投票率，因此公投无效。

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If there is any doubt whether the matter is subject to local referendum, the Executive Yuan shall have it recognized by the referendum Review Commission of the Executive Yuan.

行政院对该事项是否属地方性公民投票事项有疑义时，应提经行政院公民投票审议委员会认定之。

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Last month, Gorbachev appointed non-reformer Vladimir Orlov, former chairman of the Central Referendum Commission and a protege of the paranoid Prime Minister Pavlov, to the post of Finance Minister.

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Another reason was that, thanks to a Supreme Court judgment that led to the setting up of a referendum commission, the same amount of money had to be spent arguing both for and against the Amsterdam treaty.

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The Labour Party told the commission that it supported a generic Referendum Act, an electoral commission and independent formulation of questions.

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