Popular Initiative for the Adoption of the Mixed Proportional System
The Popular Initiative for the Adoption of the Mixed Proportional System is an initiative promoted by the civil society organization ?PODER CIUDADANO ¡YA!? (Lit. CITIZEN POWER, NOW!) in order to promote a reform of the electoral system for deputies. This group of citizens maintains that the nerve center of the crisis of the institutional system is the lack of representativeness of the deputies to the Legislative Assembly. They point out that "Costa Ricans vote but do not elect their deputies, they elect the leaders of the political parties, and the deputies are loyal to the parties, not to the people they claim to represent. The way our deputies are elected under closed lists, is clearly undemocratic". For this reason, this organization proposes, through a Popular Initiative, to reform the Political Constitution in this area. In 2016, after having been disseminated and debated for more than 2 years in various civil society forums, the project managed the signature of the number of deputies required for debate in the Congress of the Republic.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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