According to the cited documentsSocial licence
Community consultations held
>100 since 2005; ~90% against
2005-2025CIIDHMore than 100 municipal or community 'good faith' consultations have been held since 2005 and roughly 90% reject the projects, invoking the Constitution, ILO Convention 169 and the Municipal Code (Decree 12-2002) as their legal basis. The Constitutional Court (CC) has held them to be advisory and not binding: from the Sipacapa plebiscite (2007) to San Juan Sacatepéquez (2018), where it declared 'non-existent' 34 consultations with around 98% turnout against. The asymmetry is that the consultation that counts is the one a court orders and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) runs, not the one the territory convenes.
