Request for Referendum: Partial repeal of Law 17.296 of the Five-Year Budget
Various trade union groups supported by the Frente Amplio and organized in the National Commission in Defense of the Patrimony carried out an initiative to eliminate certain articles of the Five-Year Budget Law. As it was a budget law, it could not be subject to Referendum, but since the articles in question treated privatization on behalf of the National Telecommunications Association, the Electoral Court did allow the Referendum. To enable this mechanism, 701 584 signatures were presented, more than the 645 000 signatures needed to reach 25% of the electorate. However, the governing coalition (National Party and Colorado) decided to withdraw the articles voluntarily, the reason why the Referendum was not celebrated.
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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