Popular Consultation "Anticorruption"
The "Anti-Corruption" Popular Consultation was carried out as a result of a well-supported citizen initiative. After approval of the Congress, President Juan Manuel Santos set the date for its implementation (August 26, 2018). The popular consultation was a space were citizens could support or reject seven key points to fight corruption. These proposals included: reducing the salary of congressmen and state officials, eliminating alternative and special detention measures for officials incriminated in corruption scandals, implementing mechanisms for the promotion of transparency, establishing public budget oversight mechanisms, regulating the responsibilities of congressmen to improve accountability, scrutinizing unjustified property and income of public officials; and establishing clear limits for public corporations. The consultation is considered valid if at least 1/3 of the electoral census attends the polls. If one (or more) of these points is supported by at least 6.5 million citizens, the Congress has the obligation to adopt these points as laws during the following year.
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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