Popular Legislative and Regulatory Initiative
The Popular Legislative and Regulatory Initiative is a citizen participation mechanism created by Colombian Law in 1994, in which citizens have the right to present a normative project before a public corporation, such as the Congress of the Republic, the Departmental Assemblies, the Municipal or District Councils or The Local Administrative Boards. The normative projects presented must be debated and then approved, modified or denied by the corresponding public corporation. In order to present a normative initiative, citizens must first collect signatures of support of 0.5% of the citizens registered in the respective electoral census, constitute a committee of promoters and choose a spokesperson. If this is achieved, the initiative can be registered with the Registrar of the Civil Status to review the application and submit a form that serves to collect the signatures of at least 5% of the citizens enrolled in the respective electoral roll. For the latter it has a term of 6 months. In Colombia there have been 11 attempts at popular legislative and regulatory initiatives, 3 in 2002, 2 in 2004, 1 in 2005, 1 in 2006, 2 in 2010, 1 in 2012 and 1 in 2013; of which 3 reached the respective public corporation, but all were rejected during the debates.
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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