A four-part referendum was held in Ukraine on 16 April 2000. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The referendum was called by President Leonid Kuchma,Nohlen & Stöver, p1969 and asked voters whether they approved of four amendments to the constitution 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 Verkhovna Rada on the basis that the referendum was unconstitutional, as it had not passed the proposals before they went to a referendum. The Venice Commission that reviewed the case confirmed the questionable nature of the referendum that should be reviewed by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

Conduct

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, Oxford University Press, 2015, (page 87)

Results

Question I

Question II

Question III

Question IV

References

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