Foros locales de debate preconstituyente (Local Fora for Preconstituent Debates)
In the context of democratic constitutional reforms taking place in Ecuador in 2007, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), through the joint initiative Agora Democratica, supported and promoted a set of decentralized deliberative events for collective reflection called the Foros locales de debate preconstituyente (Local For a for Pre Constituent Debates). Bringing together a number of political commentators and actors, its objectives were to generate and encourage citizen participation in the constitutional process, promote inter party dialogues between political parties and other actors, as well as to enhance the public’s understanding of the constitutional process. This publication summarises some of the reflections, questions and answers raised in relation to the new constitution(2008), the constitutional assembly and the constitutional process in general.