Request for Referendum: Repeal of Abortion Law 18.9871
In 2012 the collection of signatures to request a Referendum to overthrow Law 18.9871 for the voluntary termination of pregnancy (Law IVE), also known as the Abortion Law, began. However, only 232 841 people voted in favor of calling a referendum, representing 8.88% of all eligible voters, well below the required 25%.
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
- no
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