Territorial Popular Consultation
The Territorial Popular Consultation is a citizen participation mechanism created by Colombian Law in 1994 through which governors and mayors can consult or ask the public about a matter or decision of departmental, municipal, district or local importance. In order to conduct a popular territorial consultation, the governor or mayor must obtain the go-ahead from the Assembly (in the case of the Departments), the Council (in the case of municipalities) and the Local Administrative Board (in the case of localities). Then, the query question, which can only be voted on with a 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 pronounce and decide on the matter in question. In Colombia there have been 34 Popular Consultations at the territorial level. Examples of these queries are: Do you agree and approve of the creation of the municipality of El Roble? (El Roble, Sucre); Do you want the municipality of Galapa to be part of the metropolitan area of Barranquilla? (Galapa, Atlantic); Do you agree and approve of the creation of the metropolitan area of Valledupar? (Valledupar - Agustín Codazzi, La Paz, Manaré, Balcón del Cesar and San Diego - Cesar); Do you agree, Yes or No, that the municipality of Duitama acquire the property located at 22nd Street No. 37A-61 where formerly the Ministry of Public Works ? highways division - operated to be the new Transportation Terminal for passengers? (Duitama, Boyacá); Do you want the Farias, Los Tamacos, El Carmen, Torcuatopinto, San Benito Capachino and Copos de Nieve today belonging to the municipality of San Juan del Cesar in the department of La Guajira to be annexed or belong to the municipality of El Molino? (San Juan del Cesar, La Guajira); Do citizens who live in El Paraíso and Sucre want to be part of the municipality of Sucre? (Bolívar - Sucre, Cauca); Do citizens who live in the towns of Zanjón Rico and Cañas México want the Departmental Assembly of Cauca to determine that the boundary line between the Municipalities of Puerto Tejada and Miranda is as it stands, so that it is specified that they are found in the territory of the Municipality of Puerto Tejada? (Puerto Tejada, Cauca); Do you think, Yes or No, that the "Francisco de Paula Santander" school should be built in the lot acquired by the municipality of Duitama, in the sector of San Lorenzo de Abajo, in front of the country club of the city? (Duitama, Boyacá); Do you want the municipality of Cordoba to withdraw from the healthcare company of Quindío S.A. E.S.P. Or ESAQUIN S.A (E.S.P)? (Córdoba, Quindío); Do you want the market day for the urban area of Guadalupe - Huila, to be on Saturday? (Guadeloupe, Huila); Do you want the municipality of Balboa, Risaralda, to be part of the Centro Occidente metropolitan area? (Balboa, Risaralda); Do you want the residential sector of the San José de Los Campanos district to belong to the District of Cartagena de Indias? (Turbaco, Bolívar); Do you want the District of Santa Marta to become a national model of peace? (Santa Marta, Magdalena); Do you want the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to be preserved as a common heritage of humanity, guaranteeing the autonomy of its traditional indigenous communities to conserve their Biodiversity, protect their watersheds and prohibit fumigation with herbicides that are dangerous to their ecosystems? (Santa Marta, Magdalena); Do you reject violence and agree to make Aguachica a model municipality of peace? (Aguachica, Cesar); Do you agree with the project for a Republican plaza in honor of Dr. José Ignacio de Márquez, in the same place as the main park, as planned for Ramiriquí? (Ramiriquí, Boyacá); Do you agree with the construction of the final disposal of solid waste in Medellín and the metropolitan area in the village of Tetetanes in the municipality of Sopetrán? (Sopetrán, Antioquia); Do you agree with the construction of the final disposal of solid waste in Medellín and the metropolitan area in the village of Tetetanes in the municipality of Sopetrán? (Sopetrán, Antioquia); Do you agree that the municipality manages its solid waste independently without the participation of other municipalities? Do you agree that a regional landfill should be placed in the municipality? (Nemocón, Cundinamarca); Do you agree, yes or no, in order to build an environmentally sustainable city, with purer air, less traffic congestion and more quality of life, to prohibit as of January 1, 2015 all motor vehicles of the city of Bogotá DC, in working days, in the schedules between the hours of 6:00 and 9:00AM and between 4:30 and 7:30PM? (Bogotá, D.C.); Do you refuse to continue to involve the civilian population in the war, and do you agree to make San Juan del Cesar a model of peaceful coexistence? (San Juan del Cesar, La Guajira); Do you refuse to continue to involve the civilian population in the war, and do you agree to make Villanueva a model of peaceful coexistence? (Villanueva, La Guajira); Do you refuse to continue to involve the civilian population in the war, and do you agree to make Fonseca a model of peaceful coexistence? (Fonseca, La Guajira); Do you agree, as an inhabitant of the municipality of Piedras, Tolima, to carry out exploration, exploitation, treatment, transformation, transportation, washing of materials from large-scale gold mining activities, the storage and use of materials harmful to health and the environment, specifically cyanide and / or any other substance or hazardous material associated with such activities and using the surface and groundwater of our municipality for said developments or any other nature similar to that which may affect and / or limit the supply of drinking water for human consumption, traditional productive vocations and agricultural of our municipality? (Piedras, Tolima); Do you agree that we should carry out seismic exploration, exploratory drilling, production and transportation of hydrocarbons in the villages of San José, Monserrate Alto, Monserrate La Vega, Guafal del Caja, Bendiciones, Visinaca, Lagunitas, Aguamaco, Zambo, Oso And Jaguito, where the water recharge zone of the municipality of Tauramena is located? (Turamena, Casanare).
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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