Page 211 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

The Observatory has two main functions: • to analyze citizen proposals created in Decide Madrid. • to analyze Council policies, defining its own agenda, with the possibility of sending their own proposals to referendum. On February 5, 2019, 30,000 letters were sent randomly to homes with an invitation to participate. On March 12, 49 people were selected in the second sortition, according to gender criteria (the city of Madrid is composed of 53% women), age (5 age groups) and city location (5 areas in the city were defined based on income levels). 209