Referendum for the Introduction of a bicameral system
On December 9 of 2018, Peru underwent a series of referendums regarding the constitutional reforms proposed by the President Vizcarra. Citizens had the opportunity to directly vote to approve or reject four constitutional reforms. The referendum was organized by the National Jury of Elections. The Bill N° 3185-2018-PE sought to change the legislative branch of the country and turn it into a bicameral system with 100 legislators in the house of representatives and 30 in the house of Senators. The proposal was rejected with over 90% of the votes casted against.
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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