Popular Initiative
The Popular Initiative may be exercised during the regular session of the Legislative Assembly, by any citizen or group of citizens - organized de facto or de jure and that have the support of at least five percent (5%) of the citizens registered in the electoral register- to form laws or partially reform the Political Constitution. The popular initiative will not proceed in the case of bills relating to budgetary matters, tax, fiscal, loan approvals and contracts or acts of an administrative nature. The Office of Popular Initiative of the Legislative Assembly will provide free technical advice for the drafting of the projects, as well as in the procedures to be followed, to citizens interested in exercising the popular initiative in accordance with the law in question. Likewise, the Ombudsman's Office will offer these services to citizens through their offices located throughout the country.
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
- no
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