Ethical Trial of the Parliament
The Ethical Trial of the Parliament was organized and summoned by civil society and had the objective of exercising citizens? right of monitoring and accountability. In this case, the performance of the legislature was the main issue under consideration of this citizen-led mock trial. Various organizations and other general citizens raised accusations related to anti-ethical practices, as was the accusation of a ?political trial?. An investigative team studied all claims and presented the results of the investigation to an Ethics Tribunal made up of referents from civil society. The legislature, too, had an advocate and international observers were also present. The Judgment was held in a public space, open to all interested persons. Finally the verdict declared the legislature guilty and stipulated necessary obligations to vindicate itself.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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