Law by Popular Initiative: Law for the Regulation and Control of Leases
The first application of an Act by Popular Initiative consisted of a process aimed at promoting a Law for the Regulation and Control of Leases. A series of social movements organized around the question of rent collected some 17 000 signatures to introduce a law for the protection of tenants into the National Assembly. The draft law was introduced in the parliamentary in March 2011, and in November of that year the legislation was passed. Article 204.7 of the Constitution governs popular legislative initiative and stipulates that voters (not less than 0.1% of those registered in the Civil and Electoral Registry) may submit legislation.
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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