Prior Consultation of Cherán
The Prior Consultation of Cherán was carried out in the indigenous community of San Francisco Cherán of Michoacán in 2011. Before the elections the inhabitants asked the electoral authority of Michoacán to be authorized to designate the authorities according to their indigenous traditions and customs. The Regional Electoral Tribunal recognized the right to self-determination and a consultation was organized. Of the 5023 members present in the community, 4846 voted in favor of self-management according to their own traditions and customs; only eight voted against their own self-management.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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