Collective preparation of the draft of the future Asturian Participation Law (ESASP0004)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Asturias, Spain, 2025 – 2027
Inception Report: Not available
Commitment Start: Oct 2025
Commitment End: Dec 2026
Institutions involved:
- Department of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Citizen Rights Vice-Ministry of Citizen Rights General Directorate of Citizen
- University of Oviedo
- University of Oviedo
- University of Oviedo
- Asturian civil society
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Civic Participation
Description
Commitment ID
ESASP0004
Commitment Title
Collective preparation of the draft of the future Asturian Participation Law
Problem
Currently, Asturies lacks a Citizen Participation Law which is essential to guarantee the civil rights of the population. The participation of citizens in the social and political life of the territory is a democratic guarantee for the people. This absence of a specific Law forces public powers to generate a social agreement, to approve articles that enjoy the greatest possible consensus.
Status quo
The absence of a specific Law on citizen participation prevents the articulated protection of the rights of citizens to associate and intervene in decisions made at the government level. It is necessary to have a text applied to our territory and guarantor of the most essential democratic rights.
Action
Designing a Participation Law collectively with citizens implies a high level of coordination with the Asturian associative fabric, in addition to the generation of open and transparent consultation and debate strategies and the flexibility of times and methodologies. Likewise, it must be the public authorities who travel to the territories, especially those that are more difficult to access, to guarantee that everyone can get involved in the project on equal terms. It is also essential and with the help of experts from the university environment, to share knowledge and train participants on relevant legal and social aspects. The fundamental objective is to build a text that is highly agreed upon and, above all, useful for citizens and the associative fabric, and the commitment of the Asturian Public Administration is to process said Law before the end of the current legislative period, that is, before the end of spring 2027.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
This commitment is a great step to protect the rights to participation of all Asturian citizens and is a guarantor of compliance with the democratic principles that our society has adopted. The possibility, in addition to creating channels of collaboration between the Asturian Public Administration and the social fabric, is a way of doing politics that is the opposite pole of authoritarian extremism, and that generates social awareness beyond single-person leadership
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
Permanent co-creation processes for government initiatives
Primary Policy Area
Other/NA
Primary Sector
Other/NA
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Civic Participation | The development of laws in a participatory manner is a guarantee for governments that defend and work for democracy, understood as a political challenge against injustice, inequality and the values that should predominate from public institutions.The development of laws in a participatory manner is a guarantee for governments that defend and work for democracy, understood as a political challenge against injustice, inequality and the values that should predominate from public institutions. |