The popular initiative beyond Brazil

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Possibly the best known of the popular initiative laws, the Clean Record Law, proposed by the Movement to Combat Electoral Corruption (MCCE) and approved in 2010, makes candidates who have been convicted in criminal proceedings and politicians who have been impeached ineligible for eight years.


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It is possible to state that popular initiative is an instrument for strengthening participatory democracy. Given its relevance for the development of societies, two major models of popular initiative have been developed: semi-binding and non-binding.


While the first allows the Legislature to alter or reject a popular nepal mobile database project, and must call a referendum to continue the process, the second model – in force in Brazil – is exhausted in the proposal of the Bill, where the Legislature has the freedom to approve, amend or reject the proposal without being obliged to provide any type of retraction to society.


Other Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Colombia and Chile, have invested in holding referendums and plebiscites. Uruguay, which first adopted the popular initiative model, is responsible for 81% of all direct democracy processes in the region. In Europe, Portugal also operates under this model under the Citizens' Legislative Initiative Law, which also allows its population to formulate Bills. In June of this year, more than 20,000 people signed a proposal calling for an end to public subsidies for bullfighting. The bill is still under consideration.


In the United States, although referendums do not occur at the national level, they are widely used at the state level. There, consultations are held either through the call of representatives or through direct initiative by citizens.


By using popular initiatives, societies in various countries have the chance to solidify their desires and transmit them directly to their representatives. Furthermore, popular initiatives enable citizens to exert pressure on public authorities to meet social demands and highlight the need to review parliamentary practices so that the demands of interest groups and society as a whole can be monitored and duly responded to.