Popular Consultation ?Territory Free of Mining" in San José Las Flores
The Popular Consultation ?Territory Free of Mining" in San José Las Flores was organized at the request of their communities so that previously informed residents vote on metallic mining exploration and exploitation projects in their territory. The consultation was based on articles 115-117 of the Municipal Code. A total of 811 of 1,115 eligible voters participated; 803 people voted against and 5 in favor of the mining project, 3 votes were annulled. International observers and the Human Rights Procurator (Procurador para los Derechos Humanos) lauded the electoral process.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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