2000 Union Advisory Referendum
The Consultative Trade Union Referendum was convened in Venezuela on December 3, 2000. It asked the populace whether or not to renew the leadership of the country's workers. The ruling parties in the National Assembly promoted the initiative in order to evaluate the institutional performance of the national trade union leadership. The question was: "Do you agree with the total renewal of the union leadership, under a special statute drawn up by the electorate, in accordance with the principles of alternation and universal, direct and secret election, enshrined in Article 95 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and that the directors of trade union federations, federations and confederations established in the country be suspended?" The result was 62.02% for "Yes". There was a 76% abstention from the vote.
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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