Plebiscite / Referendum for Requirements for Directorates of Autonomous Institutions and their political activity
A mandatory referendum on constitutional matters is a mechanism enshrined in the Constitution of Uruguay, so any change to the Constitution, as the last stage, has to be put to a vote by the Electoral Corps that can accept or reject it. In this case, it was carried out by means of the so-called "Declaration of Constitutional Laws", which allows citizens to submit to those initiatives that have the signatures of two-fifths of the components of the General Assembly. The objective of the reform in this case was that the directors of the autonomous state entities could not be nominated as candidates in the next election. The justification for this measure was the accusation that the candidates used the resources of their positions as directors to finance the electoral campaigns. The vote in favor only reached 38.1% of the votes cast, which meant the rejection of the reform bill.
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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