Legitimate Popular Consultation in Mercaderes - Cauca
The Legitimate Popular Consultation for the Defense of Water, Life and Territory was an exercise in participatory democracy implemented by the community of the municipality of Mercaderes, Cauca. The consultation took place on August 3, 2019 and was organized by the Coordinadora Integral Social Mercadereña, in charge of logistics and the "no" campaign. The citizenry had a high participation in the consultation. In total, 6,449 people voted "no" while 17 voted "yes" to the question of whether they agree with the activities of exploration and exploitation of metallic mining or hydrocarbons. The counting of votes was carried out by a Community Registry because it did not have the support of the national government. This consultation reached national relevance due to the solidarity of environmental organizations and processes that accompanied the effort of this small community of the Colombian massif in its struggle for the defense of water.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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