Yes and no. Sometimes good legislation fails too, and needs a repeat vote.
The important thing is that wildly unpopular laws should be directly vetoable by the population - threatening to vote out a legislator has never been a sufficient threat to make them accountable.
Is there precedent for this in Europe? I can’t remember good things which were repeated. They tend to either succeed or fail but that’s basically it. Or political parties rallye to do something but then they don’t. Or can’t agree within the coalition. Or there’s other pressing issues after the election and it gets postponed… But they don’t really say, that’s what we promised, we failed and we’ll put it on the agenda again 5 months later?!
Yes and no. Sometimes good legislation fails too, and needs a repeat vote.
The important thing is that wildly unpopular laws should be directly vetoable by the population - threatening to vote out a legislator has never been a sufficient threat to make them accountable.
I vote for “expands rights? Can repeat. Reduces rights? Has to wait”.
Is there precedent for this in Europe? I can’t remember good things which were repeated. They tend to either succeed or fail but that’s basically it. Or political parties rallye to do something but then they don’t. Or can’t agree within the coalition. Or there’s other pressing issues after the election and it gets postponed… But they don’t really say, that’s what we promised, we failed and we’ll put it on the agenda again 5 months later?!
In Switzerland we rejected women’s right to vote in 1959 and then it passed in 1971. I am certain that we have many such examples.