Revocation of Mandate
The Revocation of Mandate is a mechanism of direct participation that allows citizens to monitor, follow-up and evaluate their governors during their term, allowing them to claim a process for dismissal in special cases. In Argentina, this mechanism does not exist at national level, but it is consecrated in numerous provincial constitutions and local organic charters. On average, the support of the electorate is required for a recall process that must have about 20% of valid signatures of citizens registered in the last electoral register. If this requirement is met, the Provincial Congress or the local Deliberative Council must call a referendum for revocation of a binding nature within a specified period, usually 90 days. In general, the mechanism can only be applied after the first twelve months of activity of the official concerned and is not applicable within the last six months of his term of office.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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