Recall Referendum by Popular Mandate
The mandatory recall is a constitutional mechanism through which citizens vote on the continuity or the cessation of functions of the elected authorities. It applies to all authorities elected by popular vote, incumbents, and alternates, at the national, departmental, regional or municipal level. It cannot be implemented to destitute authorities of the Judicial Branch or the Plurinational Constitutional Court. It can only be applied after a popular initiative, and only one time during the constitutional period of the authority subject to revocation.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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