Referendum of 1998 (Constitutional Reforms for the President's re-election)
The Referendum of 1998 was carried out for citizens to vote on a constitutional reform proposal that would allow President Ernesto Pérez Balladares to run for re-election in 1999. According to the Electoral Tribunal, opponents of constitutional reform obtained 63.72 percent of the votes, while 34.32 percent favored constitutional reform. Thus, the reform was rejected.
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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