Defend public service missions. A few days to the referendum he initiated, Manfred Wiedner, leader of the group of Christian unions within the GPF, is confident: “We receive 38,000 support declarations when we only needed 8,032 to launch the referendum. I’m sure we’ll get the 62,000 missing signatures by August 3” he told Planet Labor. Since 1964, Austria has organized 32 referendums. Only one failed to get the 100,000 signatures required to force the Austrian Parliament to study the popular-initiative legislative proposals. “We want some of the Post’s public missions to be anchored in the law and we think that Austrians are going to show us that they want to keep quality postal services” he added, reminding that, in his eyes, this requirement is even more justified that the Austrian post presented very good operational and financial results for 2008.
e 62,000 missing signatures by August 3” he told Planet Labor. Since 1964, Austria has organized 32 referendums. Only one failed to get the 100,000 signatures required to force the Austrian Parliament to study the popular-initiative legislative proposals. “We want some of the Post’s public missions to be anchored in the law and we think that Austrians are going to show us that they want to keep quality postal services” he added, reminding that, in his eyes, this requirement is even more justifi
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