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Originally posted by dplax:
I study in France and have been following the events somewhat closer than I would have had for other countries referendums. The sad thing is that I have heard from several people that one of the main reasons for this vote isn't the dissatisfaction with the Constitution, but with Chirac, the french president. IMO some of the french people voted against Chirac and not against the constitution.
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That's oh so painfully true, and it's something similar that is going to happen in the Netherlands. One of the most commonly cited reasons to vote 'no' over here is 'because they screwed us over with the Euro' or another wholly unrelated reason; or worse, people voting 'no' out of principle because they have absolutely no idea what the entire thing is about in the first place (not that anyone really does, of course
). I personally don't care all that much about this whole referendum thing, nor about its outcome, but some of the arguments against are just plain silly - even outweighing the blatant propaganda methods used by the Government to get people to vote 'yes'.