National Consultation of Venezuela 2017
The National Consultation of Venezuela 2017 was a popular consultation called by the opposition through the Democratic Unity Table (MUD). In the consultation, three questions related to the approval of the Constituent Assembly of Nicolás Maduro, the protection and defense of the 1999 Constitution, and the holding of free and transparent elections in 2019 were submitted to a vote. More than 7.2 million Venezuelans participated in this consultation, both within the country and abroad, where voting centers were established in more than 100 countries for Venezuelan exiles. Although the consultation was approved by the National Assembly, it was not binding since it did not have the endorsement of the National Electoral Council. In view of the results of the consultation, where a majority was clearly dissatisfied with the government of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan government disregarded the results.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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