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need to link institutions and the Constitution to the actual country.
Third and last: the social legitimacy of
all actors, both State and non-State,
would allow a return to a debate regarding universal values and the basic work
of social legitimation necessary to promote constitutional reform at the margins of the Constitution, just as the government does. The question here is: why
are the unconstitutional reforms the government enacts legitimate, and those that
society proposed by civil society not?
Minimum and maximum agendas
This last issue is fundamental in the
strategy and tactics we are deploying
through Consenso Constitucional and
#OTRO18: to socially and politically
move within the institutional gaps created by the current Constitution and laws,
in order to strengthen the scenarios in
the direction of making large, impactful,
constitutional reforms. For this purpose,
we work employing two agendas that
precede constitutional reform: the reformation of the electoral system. They are
the Minimum Agenda and the Maximum
Agenda. The first proposes a series of
minimal reforms to the electoral system
also using associational spaces allowed
by current law, this for the purpose of
opening up and legitimating the game of
politics for society. It is essential to offer
up these minimal reforms in a series, for
consideration by electoral system and
political theory experts and specialists,
with a view to situating them in the
broader perspective of constitutional
reform. A second step is to turn them in

a legal political agenda for citizen deliberation within civil society and, later,
Constitutional Initiative Tables (MICs),
with citizens, throughout the entire country. For this phase, we hope to have and
competently handle deliberative democracy’s most rigorous techniques and
tools. That way, the process can be sociologically measured by not only political
but also scientific criteria. The deliberative survey would thus have an essential
role in generalizing the process at a more
public level. We will begin with the
Minimum Agenda, in February, before
the March meeting in Pittsburgh, by creating a civil society forum to hold a
structured conversation with social and
political actors and multipliers, to dialog
about this minimum agenda. Later, we
will reinstate the MICs with a double
agenda: deliberative democracy exercises and the practical use of its tools, in
order to deliberate the Minimum Agenda
with the citizenry. This enriched minimum agenda will become the #OTRO18’s Minimum Project for Reforms
to the Electoral System. Two processes
will be going on parallel to the MIC’s:
the deliberative survey, whose content
must be created, and the collecting of
signatures via Urna Transparente, to
seek legitimate and legalized** support
for the universal guarantees established
for all plural and competitive electoral
systems and the proposals collected by
the Minimum Project. The results of the
deliberative survey and the signatures
will be presented in two, parallel scenarios: in international spaces and in those
involving internal politics—the National

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