Issues of sub-national referendums regulated at the national level

Honduras

Honduras

Answer
Establishment of Special Regions of Development
Source

Political Constitution of 1982 (Constitución Política de 1982)with amendments in 2012

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Honduras_2012.pdf

 

Article 329

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Mandatoryreferendum

 

Special Regions of Development(RED)

The State will establish SpecialRegions of Development, these being entities created with the proposition of acceleratingthe adoption of technologies that permit the production and provision ofservices with a high aggregate value, in a stable environment, with transparentrules[,] able to capture the national and foreign investment that is requiredfor accelerated growth, to create the jobs that are necessary to reduce socialinequalities, to grant to the population the services of education, health,public security and the infrastructure necessary that permits a real bettermentin the condition of life of the region.

The systems that areinstituted in the Special Regions of Development must be established by a Constitutional Statute adoptedby the National Congress with a qualified majority of the two-thirds part ofthe totality of its members. Once promulgated[,] this Constitutional Statutemay only be modified, reformed, interpreted or abrogated with the same majorityindicated above, [with] prior referendum of the citizens that inhabit theSpecial Region of Development that is concerned.

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