Legislative Citizen Initiative
The Legislative Citizen Initiative is a constitutional entity that allows citizens to submit their own draft laws. According to the procedure, registration with the electoral authorities is required, as well as the support of 0.03% of the national voter registry. In order to obtain such support, the project is taken to the National Congress to be discussed and treated as any bill regularly initiated by congressmen and other state entities. However, these projects cannot cover certain subjects (i.e. public finance, territorial delimitation, international treaties). If it is considered formally appropriate, two representatives who can defend the project before Parliament should be appointed by the study groups.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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