Municipal Constituent Assembly of Torres
The Municipal Constituent Assembly of Torres was convened by the Mayor?s office of this Municipality on February 28, 2005 in order to prepare the Framework of the Ordinance of the General Bolivarian Municipality of Pedro León Torres Division. To this end, the Mayor?s office called on the local territorial units to form boards and working groups, who elected their representatives (spokespeople) to participate in the Constituent Assembly together with the members of the Municipal Council. This Assembly worked on a Draft Bill prepared by the Mayor?s office, eliminating, modifying and including text and articulation. Finally, the Ordinance was approved on June 19, 2005. This case was the first in Venezuela to implement the format of a Municipal Constituent Assembly with citizen participation for the elaboration and approval of a Framework Ordinance.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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