Municipal Referendum (Popular Consultation)
The Municipal Referendum is the popular consultation in which the objective is the approval, modification or derogation of a regulation or municipal order. It is called by the City Council on a canton-wide scale, for which it must issue an announcement that must be communicated to the Supreme Elections Tribunal, and which will contain, among other information: the date of the consultation, which will not be less three months upon issuance of the announcement - and a clear and detailed definition of the subject to be consulted.
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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