Popular Consultation "Territory Free of Mining" in New Trinidad
A petition, signed by 500 citizens from the region, prompted the Popular Consultation ?Territory Free from Mining? in New Trinidad. The vote was held on March 29, 2015. More than 800 voters decided to protect their territory against any mining industry initiative: 95% of the voters said no to mining, 2 annulled their ballot, 2 left theirs unused, and 4 voted in favor.
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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