California may separate from the United States if more than 55% of voters support the proposal of the initiative group. The state government responded to the proposal of local activists and created a commission that will study the opportunity to live independently for two years. About the details of the initiative, which is called CALEXIT, says the portal of the State Secretary of California Shirley n. Weber.

The portal of the Secretary of State states that permission is given for a referendum on the independence of the state of California. Referendum initiator - political activist from the city of Fresno Marcus Evans. Evans submitted the initiative on January 23, 2025 and has 180 days to collect 546,651 voter signatures in favor of this idea. Deadline - July 22, 2025. Voting will probably take place in November 2028. There will be one question in the ballot: \?

If more than 50% of voters take part in the elections and more than 55% of them will vote " At the same time, as indicated on the Weber portal, this does not mean an immediate exit from the United States. The result of voting is the announcement of the " In addition, the national flag will be removed from state institutions.

The Government of California, meanwhile, should prepare for a possible positive decision, said the Secretary of State. In particular, the staff should create a commission of 20 people who will study whether the region is able to survive independently. They plan to allocate special funds for voting - $ 10 million. To the work of the commission - 2 million dollars. annually.

CBS News TV channel talked with Evans. In his opinion, he hopes for success, given the two impeachments of Trump and judicial persecution for federal crimes.

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Note, California already had one attempt to get out of the USA. A similar initiative was proclaimed in 2016, during the previous cadence of the current president Donald Trump. Evans then also entered the group of activists who raised this issue. The vote, which took place in April 2017, was called CALEXIT - that is, California Exit, by analogy from the exit of Britain from the EU - Brexit.

California is a US state on the Pacific, in which the largest number of Americans (39 million) live and which is in third place in terms of economics. State area 423 thousand. sq. km. It is here that the offices of the largest IT companies in the world-Meta, Google, Apple, Cisco, Adobe, Nvidia, etc.. In June 2024, California GDP amounted to 4.1 trillion dollars. And the staff entered the ten richest regions of the world, wrote on the Ocregister portal.

Problems in the United States began, among other things, after the decrees of the new President Donald Trump, which he signed on the day of inauguration. A number of decisions concerned, for example, migrants, borders with Mexico, the abolition of a policy of tolerance, equality and inclusion. After that, the first raids took place for the capture of illegal immigrants:

people were detained, put on airplanes and sent to Mexico or Colombia. There was also a decree on the abolition of US citizenship by the right of birth. After that, in 22 states, claims were filed in court to recognize Trump's decision by unconstitutional.

We remind you that on January 27, analysts published a map of military bases of the United States and the Russian Federation in the Arctic: the focus collected information, what has the desire of Trump to buy Greenland.