Requirements for a referendum to pass

Kiribati

Kiribati

Answer
Mandatory referendum - qualified majority
Source

 The Constitution ofKiribati

(Adopted in July 1979, last amended in 1995)

 

http://www.paclii.org/ki/legis/consol_act/cok257/

 

(Mandatory Referendum)

Article69.

(3) In so far as it alters Chapter II of thisConstitution, an Act under this section shall not come into operation unlessthe provisions contained in the Act effecting that alteration have, inaccordance with any law in that behalf, been submitted to a referendum in whichall persons who are registered as electors for the purposes of a general electionshall be entitled to vote and unless those provisions have been supported bythe votes of not less than two-thirds of all the persons entitled to vote inthe referendum.

Comment
66.7% of electors
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