Revocation of Mandate
The Revocation of Mandate allows citizens to revoke the mandate of popularly elected public servants. This provision is guaranteed by the Mexican Political Constitution, however, only two states have regulated it. In Tlaxcala the feature was adopted in 2001, and in this state the process applies to municipal authorities if the majority of the population in the municipality requests it with a justified cause. In Oaxaca the feature was adopted in 2011, but the process is much more closed because it only considers the revocation of the governor; at the municipal level it exists mainly in municipalities bearing legislation based on tradition and customs. To revoke the governor's mandate, a series of requirements similar to those of a trial, including the right to a hearing and constitutional violations, have to be met.
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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