Federal Council of the Government
The Federal Council of the Government is a representative and deliberative body consecrated in the Constitution of 1999 for the coordination of the decentralization of the State. It followed the abolition of the Senate and it assumes to a certain extent the territorial representation of the camera. According to the Constitution, the entity should be in charge of the coordination of policies and actions when decentralizing the State. The constitutional text refers to the integration of representatives from organized society. In addition, under its mandate is the Inter-Territorial Compensation Fund, intended to compensate imbalances between territories by investing in works and services. Legislation and regulations of the Council only took effect after 2010; before it was only convened on exceptional occasions, such as the 2002 coup against the government of President Hugo Chávez. In 2010, the Organic Law of the Federal Governing Council defined more precisely the powers of the Council and subsequently developed its regulations. According to this text, the body is oriented not only to the decentralization of the executive power of the states and municipalities, but also assumes a greater role in the coordination of the so-called People's Power, the bodies that regulate participation. Among its powers, it emphasizes the coordination, execution and diffusion of the social investment policies of the state to foment the so-called "participatory and revolutionary democracy".
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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