Meanings of collect the signatures in English

Opposition parties are making a final push to collect the signatures needed to force a referendum on asset sales.

It has 30 days to collect the signatures but the opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, says it will take only hours.

The lawyers now plan to return to Manus to collect the signatures they need to relaunch the application, Reuters reports.

He had needed to collect the signatures of 30,000 eligible voters by today's deadline in order to take part.

For a referendum to take place, supporters of the ballot must collect the signatures of 10 percent of the electorate, equivalent to roughly 375,000 people.

Members of the environmental organisation collected the signatures in one afternoon.

Because he did not have a computer, Mr Sandilands collected the signatures by hand.

They said various groups had been collecting the signatures for six months across southern Iraq.

They were not for collecting the signatures of celebrities.

Leading conservation groups collected the signatures of more than 700,000 people.