People for Referendum considered that for a referendum to be effective it had to meet the following key criteria: firstly, the referendum had to be held at the initiative of the population and not of the politicians; secondly, the population must have access to all relevant information in accordance with the provisions of freedom of information legislation; and thirdly, referendum decisions had to be binding, and must not be left to be carried out at the discretion of the politicians.
People for Referendum estime que, pour être utile, un référendum doit satisfaire aux conditions suivantes: il doit se tenir à l'initiative de la population et non de la classe politique; la population doit avoir accès à toutes les informations pertinentes conformément aux dispositions législatives relatives à la liberté de l'information et le résultat de la consultation doit être contraignant, et non laissé à la discrétion des hommes politiques.