In January/99 Demopunk Net's pages published a draft of guidelines
about political freedoms of Direct Democracy in the municipal scope.
Almost four years later -as result of continuous work of this small
collective on radical democracy- we delivery the reference model of a Municipal Regulations on Participative
Democracy. Basically, it defines and regulates the political
freedoms of binding referendum, and its popular and institutional
initiative.
Model for Electoral Programme
In some towns it is being introduced in electoral programmes for municipal elections. If you are interested on development of Direct Democracy and takes part in making municipal electoral programmes, may be you must know this proposal. If you are in Spain, it is advisable to read the FAQ-España about Direct Democracy in the municipal scope.
Following a short description of the Municipal Regulations on Participative
Democracy can be found:
Workgroup
The regulations being launched is part of a long-term project, whose
goal is to provide democrat people with reference models. Models to
spread and settle political freedoms on Direct or Participative
Democracy. The project meets three wide areas, being eventually
materialized in three reference models:
Municipal
Regulations on Participative Democracy
Municipal Regulations on Participative Budget
Municipal Regulations on Residents' Associations
Reference models
Propaganda media and organic intelligentsia of the Regime are used to discrediting Direct Democracy by means of acritical references about its lack of feasibility or absence of records. It is used to refusing cynically the political confrontation, using as excuse the supposed "immaturity" of a real current of opinion, avoiding this part of the debate about crisis of representative democracy.
This effort of political technology tries to overcome the
dialectical stage which the own Regime avoids deliberately.The
existence of reference models, set out as article normative, means a
concrete proposal hard to ignore.
As every reference model, its implementation requires suitable adaptations; being advisable to embody elements which guarantees its feasibility within a given political reality. We hope this work will carry out its goals: to be political reference, suggesting ideas, concepts and procedures about Participative Democracy in the municipal scope.
Contents
The Municipal Regulations on Participative Democracy copes with following concepts and political freedoms:
Normative development of these models lacks well-defined
methodology. It is significative lack, but also it is inevitable in
view of our material and personal limitations. However, following
design criteria could be pointed up:
Experiences
Demopunk Net's pages want to host and spread another experiences and projects on Participative Democracy in the municipal scope, specially if they have reached a normative development.
Participative Budget