Referendum to Approve the Draft Constitution of 1999
After six months of work, the Constituent Assembly in charge of drafting a new constitutional text convened the referendum to approve the draft constitution for December 15, 1999. The question was: "Do you approve the Constitution drafted by the National Constituent Assembly?" For the "Yes", 71.78% of valid votes were counted, while the "No" won 28.22%. Abstention stood at 56%.
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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