Municipal Citizen Initiative
The Municipal Citizen Initiative is a mechanism of direct democracy that allows citizens, with a percentage of not less than 0.1% of voters in the municipalities, to submit draft ordinances or amendments to those already in force. The City Council has to meet with proponents of an initiative and consider their submission. After the examination, within a period of 30 days, the City Council must decide on the issue. If the debate is not held within that period, the project will be submitted to a popular consultation.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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