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Abstract

The recall is a legal tool that belongs to participatory democracy, well known at many countries of Amercia, but non-existent at Spain, that allows citizens to decide through a votation on the continuity or ending of the mandate of a governor previously elected by them. Recall is in this way a control mechanism that citizenship has over their rulers on presidential models that don't foresee the parliamentary censure over those rulers because of have been elected not by a representative assembly but by citizens. Starting from the knowledge of the recall concept, as well as of the example of the regulation and practice of recall in two countries, Colombia and Venezuela, it is interesting to think on the chances to regulate and apply this institution on Spain. This is, if it would be posible to apply it, how would be posible to do it, what modifications would be necessary to practice in the spanish regulation or, conversely, it would not mean any improvement, or even, if it would suppose a worsening of the spanish control model over rulers. The spanish control model, parliamentary kind, has the parliamentary censure as essential tool to allow the representative assembly to control the previously chosen ruler. How would be possible to introduce in a model like this a tool as recall? Possibly, the easiest way would be by modifying the model and changing it into a presidential one to allow citizens to choose the president and, therefore, they can eventually to depose him through the recall. Would suppose that an improvement of the model or simply a change of model from the parlamentary one to the presidential one? Nowadays, when not only a few voices suggest and ask changes in the Spanish political system, it is of special interest to meditate on a legal tool as recall as its possible introduction in Spain, showing its potential advantages of improvement and democratic deepening, but also its possible problems of populism and simplification of the political discourse.

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Title
ACERCA DE LA REVOCATORIA DE MANDATO Y SU HIPOTÉTICA APLICACIÓN EN ESPAÑA/ON THE RECALL ELECTION AND ITS HIPOTETICAL APPLICATION AT SPAIN
Author
Nárdiz, Alfredo Ramírez
Pages
119-150
Publication year
2016
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
18869912
e-ISSN
22553436
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1830020112
Copyright
Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2016