Public Consultation to start the operation of the Thermoelectric Plant in Morelos
The ?Public Consultation to start the operation of the Thermoelectric Plant in Morelos? was organized by the Federal Government to get to know the opinions and views of the citizens regarding the start of operations of the Thermoelectric Plant of la Huexca, located in the municipality of Cuautla, Morelos. The consultation took place on February 23 and 24, and was conducted in the affected municipalities of the states of Morelos, Tlaxcala and Puebla, through which the gas pipeline connected to the Thermoelectric Plant of the Federal Electricity Commission crosses. According to the official results, 55,715 citizens participated in the consultation, from which 59.5% voted in favor of the project, while 40.1% voted against. During the public consultation, several protests and manifestations were registered, which led to the closure of several voting polls. As a result, and despite being the most affected state, Morelos registered the lowest number of votes.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- 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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