Over 100 community consultations without binding force
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
More 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.
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Figures
- Community consultations held
- >100 since 2005; ~90% against
Sources
Related records
- The death of State-licensed projects in Guatemala
- Guatemala's ratification of ILO Convention 169 and its obligations
- Absence of a prior consultation law and Initiative 5450
- The Constitutional Court's four stages of prior consultation
- The missing consultation law as an investor risk
- The 2005 Sipacapa consultation on the Marlin mine
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