This suggests voters abandoned the anti-establishment party while still endorsing its referendum proposal.

At least half of the total registered electorate (i.e. more than 757,607) had to approve the referendum proposal in order for it to be valid.

Since the referendum proposal was for an indirectly elected president, many radicals opposed it.

The week prior, two major parties had come out in their opposition to the referendum proposal as well.

If the referendum proposal were to have failed, it could have been repeated in six months or a year.