Nation-wide referendum in the Republic of Belarus

The aim of the article is to present the issue of the nation-wide referendum in contemporary Belarus, country called ‘the last European dictatorship’. The paper is first study devoted to this issue in Polish literature. The author, basing on Belarus’ constitution and other legal acts investigates theoretical and practical aspects of the referendum. The author also describes all cases of implementation of the nation-wide referendum in Belarus after 1991 and discuses their role in the process of shaping contemporary political system of this country. He concludes that referendum in Belarus is rather a tool of political mobilization of the society under authoritarian regime than a form of exercising citizens’ voting rights.