National Popular Consultation
The National Popular Consultation is a mechanism for citizen participation created by Colombian Law in 1994 through which the President of the Republic can consult or ask the public about a matter or decision of national importance. To carry out a national popular consultation, the President must obtain the signature of all the ministers and the go-ahead from the Senate of the Republic. Then, the query question, which can only be voted with yes or no, is submitted to the corresponding court to decide on its constitutionality. If it is approved, the consultation is carried out in which the people formally declare and decide on the matter in question.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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