Committee for the Evaluation of Applications to Citizen Power
The Committee for the Evaluation of Applications to Citizen Power is a representative body of civil society whose main function is to select the candidates for appointment to Citizen Power, through a transparent process based on merit and suitability, and not partisan affiliation. Citizen Power is one of the innovations of the Venezuelan Constitution of 1999 that institutionalizes a new power of monitoring, centered on the vigilance of the officials of the Justice and Public Administration. Together with the classic distinction between Executive, Legislative and Judicial Power, the constitutional text institutionalizes Electoral Power and Citizen Power. The latter is responsible for the prevention, investigation and punishment of acts that violate public moral and administrative ethics, as well as to ensure good management and legality in the use of public assets, compliance and application of the principle of legality in all administrative activity of the State and also promote education as a creative process of the citizenry, as well as solidarity, freedom, democracy, social responsibility and work. This power is exercised by the Republican Moral Council, which is comprised of the Attorney General of the Republic, the Comptroller General of the Republic and the Ombudsman. The Committee for the Evaluation of Applications to Citizen Power is convened by the Republican Moral Council and must propose three candidates for each body of the Citizen Power. These proposals are forwarded to the National Assembly, which will make the final election with the favorable vote of two thirds of its members. If there is no agreement in thirty continuous days, the agenda proposed by the Committee will be submitted to a popular consultation.
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
- no
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