Plebiscite for Recall of the Municipal Mandate (Popular Consultation)
The Plebiscite for Recall of the Municipal Mandate is summoned by the Municipal Council before a motion presented by a predetermined number of councilors, and its purpose is to summon the voters of the respective canton so that they can decide whether to remove the municipal mayor or not. The plebiscite for recall may be extended to substitute mayors; in which case, the question of the removal of the substitutes will be independent of that of the actual mayor.
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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