Citizen Consultation on "PRD-PAN Alliance in the State Election"
The Citizen Consultation on the PRD-PAN Alliance for the state governor elections in the State of Mexico was organized by the civil organization "Civic Alliance" under the authority of a Citizens Council comprised of individuals of merit with a democratic trajectory. The functions of the Citizens Council were: a) to monitor compliance with the rules in the organization of the consultation; b) to receive, investigate and resolve possible complaints and, c) to issue necessary resolutions to guarantee the objectivity and transparency of the consultation. The text of the question: "For the next gubernatorial election in the State of Mexico, would you agree on an alliance between the PAN and the PRD proposed by a candidate with a common government program?"
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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