2008 Latvian pensions law referendum
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2008 Latvian pensions law referendum
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A referendum on amendments in the pensions law was held in Latvia on 23 August 2008. It failed due to low turnout, as 453,730 votes would have been necessary to make it valid. If it had succeeded, minimum pensions would have been tied to the government-set subsistence benefit level with a higher coefficient than earlier, in effect tripling the minimum pension from 50 lati to at least 135 lati. The referendum was strongly supported by an organisation called Society for Different Politics, which a
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