Revocation of Mandate
The Revocation of Mandate is a constitutional provision that allows citizens to submit - to the representatives of the Executive Branch in the subnational units of Ecuador ? to a popular vote on whether or not its mandate should be allowed to continue. Since 2008, when it was incorporated into the Constitution, this mechanism has been used 30 times, reaching both mayors and elected governors. The popular decision must be mandatorily and immediately fulfilled. In case of the revocation of mandate, the authority in question will be removed from office and replaced by a fitting individual in accordance with the Constitution.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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