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On 20 February 2005 a consultative referendum was held in Spain to ask whether the country should ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union. The result was a landslide victory for the "Yes" campaign, with 77 per cent of voters in favour. Turnout, however, was only 42 per cent of the electorate—the lowest in any election since the restoration of democracy in the 1970s. The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty intended to create a constitution for the European Union. ...
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The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty signed in 2004 and currently awaiting ratification, intended to create a constitution for the European Union. ...
February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ...
Ratification is the process of adopting an international treaty, or a constitution or other nationally binding document (such as an amendment to a constitution) by the agreement of multiple subnational entities. ...
The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty signed in 2004 and currently awaiting ratification, intended to create a constitution for the European Union. ...
The question put to voters was:
- ¿Aprueba usted el Tratado por el que se establece una Constitución para Europa?
- "Do you approve the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe?"
The referendum was not legally binding on the government, but paved the way for parliamentary ratification of the constitutional treaty, which happened in the Lower Chamber on April 28, 2005, with a result of 319 "Yes" against 19 "No", and in the Upper Chamber on May 18, 2005 with a result of 225 "Yes" against 6 "No" and one abstention. April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
Campaign
 Front cover of an edition of the constitutional treaty published and distributed for free by the Spanish government Both the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the main opposition People's Party (PP) campaigned for a "Yes" vote. They were joined by the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ–PNV) and the Catalan nationalist Convergence and Unity (CiU). Among the parties campaigning for a "No" vote were United Left (IU), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV), the social democratic Aragonese Council (CHA), the Basque nationalist social democratic Eusko Alkartasuna, and the CGT trade union. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty signed in 2004 and currently awaiting ratification, intended to create a constitution for the European Union. ...
The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español or PSOE) is one of the main parties of Spain. ...
From the left: Mariano Rajoy, Josep Piqué and José MarÃa Aznar during the proclamation act of Josep Piqué in September 2003 The Peoples Party (Spanish: Partido Popular) is a large conservative political party in Spain. ...
The Basque Nationalist Party is a political party in the Basque region of Spain. ...
Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...
// Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based on that belief, above all the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is...
Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió, CiU) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ...
United Left (Izquierda Unida) is an electoral coalition that was organized in 1986 during the mobilizations in Spain against NATO. It was formed by several groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was always dominated by the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). ...
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Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...
The Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) is a regionalist and social democrat party of Aragon (one region of spain), influenced by socialism and ecopacifism. ...
The Gernika oak is a symbol of Basque freedoms. ...
Eusko Alkartasuna, Basque and Spanish regional political party, translated as Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA, is a party which describes itself as a Basque national, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party. ...
The Confederación General del Trabajo of Spain (CGT) is a Anarcho-Syndicalist trade union, arisen from the split of CNT/AIT after the arrival of democracy and the following reorganization and restructuring process of the trade unions. ...
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Amidst widespread apathy surrounding the constitutional treaty, and ignorance of its contents (in a government poll, 90 per cent of voters admitted to having little or no knowledge of its provisions), the government hired celebrities to read excerpts from the text in daily television broadcasts, and five million copies (without annexes) were sent out with Sunday papers. While many felt that the result of the referendum was a foregone conclusion, it was feared that turnout could be as low as 40 to 50 per cent of the electorate. This turned out to be the case.
In late January 2005, several bodies campaigning for a "No" vote complained to Spain's independent National Electoral Commission about the government's planned information campaign: 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15 Ruth Warrick • 14 Rudolph Moshammer Recent deaths Ongoing events • Tsunami relief...
- On 14 January, ERC demanded that the National Electoral Commission should block what it saw as unfair promotion of the treaty by the government.
- On 19 January, the Tomás Moro Centre for Juridical Studies (CJSTM) and Another Democracy is Possible complained to the National Electoral Commission about what they saw as the unfair nature of the government’s campaign.
In response to these complaints, the Commission ruled that the government's campaign must be purely informative, and banned several of its campaign slogans: Otra Democracia es Posible is an extraparliamentary Spanish political party. ...
- The campaign to be carried out by the Government as part of the present referendum process must inform objectively on the contents of the Treaty.... All value judgements and slogans previously used in TV, on websites and other media, e.g. "We are first with Europe", and statements that could, direct or indirectly, influence the position or attitude of the citizens, must be removed.
There were also reports of censorship in the government's online forum on the Constitution. According to Another Democracy is Possible, the website also infringes Spanish law related to government information, and could be defined as "illicit publicity". Censorship is the use of group power to control speech and other forms of human expression. ...
Results
 Distribution of "Yes" votes by province.
 Distribution of the turnout by province. The result of the referendum was a landslide victory for the "Yes" campaign. At only 42 per cent, turnout was the lowest in any election since the restoration of democracy in 1977. This was seen by commentators as an embarrassment for the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. I, the creator of this image, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero (born August 4, 1960) is the Prime Minister of Spain. ...
| Final results: | | Votes cast | 14,204,663 | 42.32% | | Abstentions | 19,359,017 | 57.68% | | Electorate | 33,563,680 | | | Of votes cast: | | Valid votes | 14,081,966 | 99.14% | | Invalid votes | 122,697 | 0.86% | | Total votes | 14,204,663 | | | Of valid votes: | | Yes | 10,804,464 | 76.73% | | No | 2,428,409 | 17.24% | | Blank | 849,093 | 6.03% | | Total | 14,081,966 | |
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