Initiating Local Referendum A local referendum may be initiated by:

a) half of the elected councillors. But in the case of recalling a mayor, a local referendum is initiated by secret voting of two thirds of elected councillors;
b) mayor of the village (commune), town (municipality), except where a referendum to recall a mayor is being initiated;
c) representative bodies of special status territorial-administrative unit; d) 10% of the citizens eligible to vote who are residents of the respective territorial-administrative unit.