El miércoles 28 de julio IDEA Internacional, a través de la Oficial de Programa María Jaraquemada, participó en audiencia pública de la Comisión de Ética de la Convención Constitucional Chilena que está a cargo de la propuesta de regulación de esta entidad en materia de probidad y ética.
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Public participation has become a core element of modern constitution-building. The question for leaders charged with designin
On July 4, the 155 representatives of the Chilean Constitutional Convention accepted the mandate that voters gave them in May. In that first session, the representatives also voted to select their board, choosing Elisa Loncón, PhD in Linguistics and elected in a reserved seat of the Mapuche Indigenous People, and Jaime Bassa, PhD in Law, elected on the list of Frente Amplio’s coalition.
Public participation has become a core element of modern constitution-building. Robust participation is credited with a range of benefits—from improving individual behaviours and attitudes to democracy to shaping elite bargaining dynamics, improving constitutional content, and strengthening outcomes for democracy and peace. Yet it is not well understood whether and how public participation can achieve these ends.
What has happened to elections in Latin America in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic? How have the electoral management and judicial bodies faced the various challenges of the health crisis? Which best practices and lessons have been implemented to defend democracy in the region?
Los días 15 y 16 de mayo se llevaron a cabo las elecciones en Chile —que fueron postergadas dos veces1— para elegir 155 representantes de la Convención Constitucional (que sesionará a partir de julio por entre 9 y 12 meses para redactar una nueva constitución cuya aprobación será sometida a un referéndum con voto obligatorio); 13 gobernadores regionales —primera vez que se eligen y no son designados por el Presidente de la República—; 345 alcaldes o alcaldesas; y, concejales de esa
Elections were held in Chile on 15 and 16 May 2021—after being postponed twice[1]—to elect 155 delegates to the Constitutional Convention (which will meet as of July for 9 to 12 months to draft a new constitution whose adoption will be subject to a referendum with compulsory voting); 13 regional governors—the first time governors will be elected rather than designated by the President of the Republic; 345 mayors; and local
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Parliament of Mozambique and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) in Maputo, Mozambique, today.
The MoU is valid for 30 months and establishes the principles and areas of cooperation between the two institutions, namely, among others:
ADDIS ABABA— African countries are still far from achieving women's equal and effective participation in political decision-making. Women constitute only 24 per cent of the 12,113 parliamentarians in Africa, 25 per cent in the lower houses and 20 per cent in the upper houses of parliaments, according to the first Women's Political Participation: Africa Barometer 2021 published today.
African countries are still far from achieving women’s equal and effective participation in political decision-making.
Critical in any constitution-building process is the type of constitution-making body that will be responsible for the drafting but also the adoption of either a new or a reformed constitutional dispensation. But as important is the fac that any constitution-making body, big or small, elected, nominated or mixed, will have to have rules regulating its procedures.
El miércoles 26 de febrero de 2020, Brasil reportó el primer caso de una persona contagiada con el virus SARS-CoV-2. El 7 de marzo, falleció en Argentina la primera persona a causa de covid-19. Apenas cuatro días después, el 11 de marzo, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declaró que el coronavirus era una pandemia global.
ADDIS ABABA - The COVID-19 pandemic has regressed key aspects of democracy in Africa and the Middle East, including the disruption of electoral processes, restrictions on civil liberties like freedom of expression, and increasing persecution of opposition leaders and parties. The pandemic has hit the region at a time in which the significant advances of democracy in the last decades were coming to a halt.
With an important voter turnout on the National Plebiscite of 25 October, Chileans decided to draw up a new constitution, by the future election of a citizen constitutional convention. What are the next steps for this constitutional process that had just begun?
Con una importante participación electoral en el plebiscito nacional del 25 de octubre, Chile decidió redactar una nueva constitución a través de la futura elección de una convención constituyente compuesta exclusivamente por ciudadanos. ¿Cuáles son los siguientes pasos de este proceso constitucional que acaba de comenzar?
Este domingo 25 de octubre de 2020, Chile definirá si desea –o no– una nueva Constitución y a través de qué mecanismo. Esto podría dar pie a un proceso inédito en la historia del país, permitiendo a la ciudadanía escoger a los representantes que redacten y elaboren una nueva propuesta constitucional.
Más de 160 mujeres y hombres líderes políticos de América Latina, incluyendo a 21 exmandatarias y exmandatarios, han firmado una declaración conjunta llamando a defender la democracia en la región. El documento, impulsado por renombradas organizaciones prodemocráticas, advierte que las libertades que tanto apreciamos están amenazadas por actores políticos que podrían utilizar la pandemia para reforzar ilegítimamente su poder.
More than 160 leaders from Latin America, including 21 former presidents, have signed a joint declaration calling to defend democracy in the region. The document, brought forward by renowned pro-democracy organizations, warns that our cherished civil freedoms are threatened by political actors who could use the crisis to illegitimately tighten their grip on power.
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