plebiscite

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During the cold war the United Nations said there should be a plebiscite to let Papuans decide their future.
冷戰(zhàn)期間，聯(lián)郃國(guó)曾聲明應(yīng)該進(jìn)行一場(chǎng)公民投票，讓巴佈亞人決定自己的未來。
Having campaigned as if the assembly election were a plebiscite on his rule, Mr Chavez this week said it was “not about me”.
查韋斯的競(jìng)選活動(dòng)似乎表明，議會(huì)選擧是對(duì)其統(tǒng)治的一個(gè)公民投票。本周，查韋斯稱“這不是關(guān)於我的選擧”。
The western part of the island of New Guinea was once a Dutch colony, but has been Indonesian territory since a highly contested 1969 plebiscite known as the "Act of Free Choice.
新幾內(nèi)亞群島的西部地區(qū)曾經(jīng)是荷蘭殖民地，但是根據(jù)1969年的“自由選擇法案”的公民投票表決後該地區(qū)即成爲(wèi)印度尼西亞的領(lǐng)土。

More important, the UN-mandated plebiscite does not offer Kashmiris what most of them really want: independence.
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Ecuador's Congress has consented to hold a plebiscite on the formation of a national Constituent Assembly.
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A plebiscite is a direct vote by the people of a country or region in which they say whether they agree or disagree with a particular policy, for example, whether a region should become an independent state.