Although approved by 84.3% of those voting, voter turnout was just 44.1% and the referendum was declared invalid due to insufficient turnout.
Both of his referendum proposals were rejected due to insufficient turnout, in part by the Pan-Blue boycott.
The insufficient turnout may be why too many dishes seemed reheated or held over.
A referendum in Hungary to grant citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in other countries appears to have failed due to insufficient turnout.
The boycott helped forced a second set of elections when the second round was ruled to have had insufficient turnout.
President Traian Băsescu had wanted to introduce a single-winner two-round electoral system before this election, but a 2007 referendum on the proposal failed on insufficient turnout.
The referendum was initiated by the Communist Party of Germany, but failed due to insufficient turnout of the petition (just 2.9%).