Citizens' Initiative Against the Enforcement of the New Penal Code
The Citizens' Initiative Against the Enforcement of the New Penal Code was presented by the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA) and more than 30 civil society organizations before the Secretariat of the National Congress in 2019. This initiative sought to prevent the implementation of the new penal code, which reduces penalties for corruption and organized crime, criminalizes protests and violates freedom of expression. The initiative also proposed the elaboration of a new code based on dialogue and citizen deliberation. However, this initiative was rejected by Congress, which formally implemented the Penal Code in June 2020.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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