Constitutional Referendum 2007
The 2007 Constitutional Referendum was convened by the National Assembly at the request of President Hugo Chavez. The main objective was the amendment of 69 articles of the 1999 Constitution to allow the acceleration of the institutional changes proposed by Chavez's government program, "Socialism of the 21st Century." Among the changes proposed was the possibility of permitting indefinite re-election of any elected office, including the presidency. However, the referendum declined the proposals by 1.31% of the votes. The "No" obtained a total of 4 521 494 votes (50.65% of the participating voters), compared to 4 404 626 votes in favor of "Yes" (49.34%). Abstention stood at 43.95%.
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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