The Code of Good Practice on Referendums is favourable neither to turnout nor to approval quorums. In particular, turnout quorums may encourage opponents to abstain rather than to vote against the proposal. However, this Code is intended as applying to texts submitted to referendum (a specifically-worded draft, repeal of an existing provision, a question of principle or a “generally-worded proposal”), and not to the institution of the recall, which puts into question the elected body itself rather than an act it adopted, as does a referendum. This peculiarity has therefore to be taken into account when addressing the issue of quorums.