Friday, October 02, 2009

Today Ireland votes the Treaty of Lisbon in second referendum

The irish go to the polls for decide if they ratify the Treaty of Lisbon or not.

This is the second referendum in Ireland. In 2008 a 53% of the voters said no to the Treaty of Lisbon (also known as Reform Treaty).

Now the last survey give the victory to the "yes" (46% votes yes, 29% votes no). The number of undecideds have been growing up.

The Reform Treaty was signed in Lisbon on 13 december 2007. This Treaty changes the workings of the European Union and it's considered the European Constitution replacement (the European Constitutions wasn't approved due the rejection of The Netherlands and France).

If finally wins the "no", the Reform Treaty will be extinguished. because  it must be ratify by all the E.U members. At the moment there are three countries that haven't  to ratify this treaty: Ireland, Czech Republic and Polland.

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