A four-part constitutional referendum was held in

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on 16 April 2000.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The referendum was called by President

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,Nohlen & Stöver, p1969 and asked voters whether they approved of four amendments to the

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that would increase the powers of the President and introduce an upper chamber. Although all four were approved by wide margins,Nohlen & Stöver, pp1985–1986 the changes were never implemented by the

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on the basis that the referendum was unconstitutional, as it had not passed the proposals before they went to a referendum. The

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that reviewed the case confirmed the questionable nature of the referendum that should be reviewed by the

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#Do you support the proposal to complete Article 90 of the Constitution of Ukraine with a new third part with the following content: "The President of Ukraine can suspend the powers of the

of Ukraine, if the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine fails to form a stable and operational majority in one month, or if it fails to adopt the state budget of Ukraine prepared and submitted in due form by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in three months." That could be considered as an additional reason for the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by the President of Ukraine with a corresponding amendment to paragraph 8 part one of Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine: "and other cases as established in the constitution of Ukraine"? #Do you agree with the necessity to limit the immunity of the People's Deputies of Ukraine and to delete paragraph three of Article 80 of the Constitution of Ukraine which reads: "People's Deputies of Ukraine cannot be held criminally liable, detained or arrested without the consent of the Verkhovna Rada"? #Would you agree to reduce the number of People's Deputies of Ukraine from 450 to 300 and to replace, in this context, in the first part of Article 76 the words "four hundred and fifty" by "three hundred", and to make corresponding changes in the legislation on elections? #Do you agree that it is necessary to create a two-chamber parliament where one of the chambers would represent interests of the Ukrainian regions, and to introduce the corresponding changes to the Constitution of Ukraine and legislation on elections?

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According to historian Serhy Yekelchyk President Kuchma's administration "employed electoral fraud freely" during the referendum.''The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know''
by Serhy Yekelchyk,

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, 2015, (page 87)

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