Referendum for the Creation of a new authority responsible for the election of all judges and prosecutors
On December 9 of 2018, Peru underwent a series of referendums regarding the constitutional reforms proposed by the President Vizcarra. Citizens had the opportunity to directly vote to approve or reject four constitutional reforms. The referendums were organized by the National Jury of Elections. The Bill N° 3185-2018-PE was designed to create a new authority responsible for the election of all judges and prosecutors. The National Judiciary Council was the organ responsible for this, however after several accounts of corruption, the creation of a new institution, the National Justice Board, that bases the election of judges and prosecutors on meritocracy and evaluation is proposed. The proposal was approved with over 86% of the votes casted in favor. On the 19th of February of 2019, the National Justice Board Law was published, and the new institution founded.
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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