Plebiscite
The Plebiscite is a mechanism created with the aim of consulting citizens in order to declare their support or rejection to constitutional, legislative or administrative options on which the constituted powers have not made any previous decision, provided that these aspects are valued as matters of fundamental importance to national life. The request can be addressed to the Secretariat of the National Congress if at least 2% of the citizens enrolled in the National Electoral Census vote for it. By 2016, Honduras had had one plebiscite requested by the President of the Republic, Juan Orlando Hernández, in a resolution of the Council of Secretaries of State. The mentioned consultation was stipulated to be carried out in the general elections of the year 2017.
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
- yes
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