Approval Referendum for the Creation of Municipalities
The Approval Referendum for the Creation of Municipalities is a mechanism allowing the populace to be consulted with regards to the creation of a new municipality. First, there must be an Act approved by the Legislative Council where the creation of a new municipality is to take place. This will then be submitted to the approving referendum, where the affected citizens can participate and issue their consent or dissent. This norm is regulated in Article 10 of the Organic Law of Municipal Public Power from 2010.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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