Plebiscite / Popular Initiative to ban open-pit metal mining at the national level
The initiative on metalliferous mining sought to include in the Constitution in Article No. 47 the prohibition of open pit metal mining throughout the national territory. The proposal and the campaign for a plebiscite were carried out by the Uruguayan Free Movement of Megaminería, a set of several social organizations of Uruguay. The campaign was launched in 2013, and for the plebiscite to be included in the 2014 national elections, the necessary signatures would have to be collected by May 2014, which was not achieved. However, the proposal to join the signatures to make possible a plebiscite in the next elections continued.
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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