Citizen Consultation on Energy Reform in Mexico
The Citizen Consultation on Energy Reform in Mexico was convened by a legislative coalition and the government of the Mexican social democratic parties, the Civic Alliance and the National Movement in Defense of Oil, to counteract the reforms sent by the President of the Congress. The consultation was organized by the local Electoral Institutes. The results were presented to the Senate of Mexico. Its geographic coverage was comprised of 1271 municipalities across the 31 federal states of the country and the 16 delegations of Mexico City. In total, 724 426 people participated by expressing their opinion.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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