Electoral Applications Committee
The Electoral Applications Committee is a body of the National Electoral Council (NEC) that is convened to elect new representatives to the NEC. According to the National Constitution, no candidate aspiring for membership to the National Electoral Council can have any links with political groups. Consequently, its members are selected by the Electoral Applications Committee specially convened for this purpose and comprised of 11 deputies of the National Assembly of Venezuela and another 10 members representing various sectors of civil society, such as various organizations and associations, law faculties and citizens. Once the Committee has been formed, it has the function of convening, receiving, evaluating, selecting and presenting the lists of qualified candidates to join the governing body of the elections before the plenary session of the National Assembly.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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