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Decide Madrid: A Critical Analysis of an Award-Winning e-Participation Initiative

Sonia Royo; Vicente Pina; Jaime Garcia-Rayado · Sustainability 12(4), 1674 · 2020

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Author: Sonia Royo; Vicente Pina; Jaime Garcia-Rayado
Identifier: DOI 10.3390/su12041674
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedDecide Madrid opened in September 2015 under the Ahora Madrid government (in office May 2015 to May 2019). By the end of 2018 more than 400,000 users had registered, with participatory budgets drawing the highest participation.EstablishedA citizen proposal needed 27,662 supports to reach a vote. Of 25,418 proposals made to the end of 2018, only two did; the council's decision that poll and budget results were binding had no legal coverage and rests on the Mayor's Office.EstablishedThe Consul code was reported in 2020 as adopted or being implemented in more than 100 institutions in 33 countries; the CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation, founded in 2019, now reports roughly 350 governments and organisations using it since 2015 under the AGPL v3 licence.EstablishedDecide Madrid stayed in use after the city government changed in June 2019, with seven processes held to mid-January 2020, but researchers found falling activity in proposals and debates and criticised weak transparency and the functioning of some participatory tools.EstablishedMadrid's participatory budgets allocated €60 million in 2016 and €100 million in each of 2017 and 2018 (1.2–1.8 per cent of the municipal budget); of 25,418 citizen proposals made on Decide Madrid to the end of 2018, only two reached the voting phase.