Open Town Hall
According to Law 176-07, citizens have the right to request Open Town Hall meetings for specific issues relating to the interests of the community. The mayor is obliged to attend these meetings in person or through his legal alternate. Town hall meetings (town councils) can be requested by the Mayor, the Municipal Council or by citizens represented through civil society organizations. The request should stipulate the specific topics to be discussed, the pertinence and justification for the choice of topic, as well as at least three representatives of the requesting party that will be present at the meeting (in case the mayor requests the meeting, that their presence is sufficient). After receiving the consultation, the Municipal Council has 30 days to decide whether to hold the requested meeting; their decision must be communicated to the parties in writing. To attract as many participants as possible, the agenda of the meeting should be made public through different media during the 15 days prior to the meeting. Citizens who wish to participate in the meeting can register at the municipal Secretariat until one day before the meeting. They are granted the right to speak at the meeting in the chronological order of their registration.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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