Popular Plebiscite on the external debt
The popular plebiscite on the external debt was held between September 2nd and September 7th, 2000. The campaign, organized by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil), the Order of Attorneys of Brazil (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil), the Central Workers Union Confederation (Central Única dos Trabalhadores) and more than 50 entities from the democratic and popular movement, aimed at promoting a discussion about the topic and asking the population how the Brazilian State should deal with the issue of domestic public debt and foreign debt. The three questions asked were: a) Should Brazil maintain its agreement with the IMF?; b) Should Brazil continue paying its foreign debt without conducting the audit foreseen in the Constitution?; and c) Should the federal, state and municipal governments continue using a large part of the public budget to pay its internal debt to speculators?. 5,475,115 voters showed up for the plebiscite, to which the vast majority (96.5%) responded ?no". Although the plebiscite did indeed promote an important discussion on public debt among the Brazilian society, until 2016, the results had not been yet incorporated by the Brazilian State.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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