Municipal Plebiscite of Cotuí
The Municipal Plebiscite of Cotuí occurred on May 3, 2009, when the inhabitants of Cotuí were asked to cast their votes in a public plebiscite for the approval of the Municipal Development Plan until 2013 (there is a distinction between 'Referendum' and ' Municipal Plebiscite 'in Law 176-07 which guides municipal policy). 98% of the votes were in favor of the development plan, with 10.5% of all registered voters participating. The plebiscite in Cotuí took place the same day in which two other Referenda were celebrated in Maimón and Fantino. Preparations and execution of the plebiscites were supported by the municipalities, the General Election Commission (Central Electoral Board) as well as the Canadian Embassy and its cooperation office.
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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