How To...

pull the strings for distorting a referendum, and... lose the game.
1. First of all, you have to change the electoral law, after you have fixed up all the details for the referendum.
2. Second, you can set up the ballots, so that most of the voters won't know if they have to say "Yes" or "No" - no matter what they really intend.
3. Third, you can make an alliance with all political foes, calling their supporters to vote like yours.
n. Last, but not least, you have to distribute just about 500,000 ballots abroad, when the official statistics say that there are 2,000,000 Romanians living abroad. (Notwithstanding that there are probably more than 5,000,000!) That way, you just shut their mouths up, which is, alas!, not enough...

Corollary: You must be really stupid to believe that most of the people are so stupid as your advisers say.
Second corollary: Stupidity is equally distributed among political parties' supporters.

N.B. Any resemblance with the plans of Romanian government is pure reality.