In March, the Netherlands held a referendum on a new security law supported by the government and many political parties. But Dutch voters rejected the law, which would have given the country's spy agencies the power to carry out mass surveillance, though a citizen-initiated referendum.
Politicians don't like to be embarrassed, and they'll avoid it even if it means stifling democracy and silencing the voice of the people.
In response to the March referendum result, the Dutch government decided it had had enough and said it would abolish citizen-initiated referenda entirely — making it the first democracy to do so since 1928.