Transcendence of iuspublicistic republican roman model for constitutional and legal design of political participation of the citizen in Paraguay

Abstract

Political participation in Paraguay acquired a new dimension after the constitutional transformation that took place in the country with the promulgation of the Constitution in 1992. Hence, to argue, from the analysis of the current design of citizen political participation in Paraguay, the existence of a line of historical and theoretical continuity with Roman municipal iuspublicism, represented a journey through the Paraguayan participatory political tradition, in order to find the Roman roots of institutes such as accountability, the revocation of the mandate, the legislative initiative. Consequently, the type of research was non-experimental, explanatory, with a qualitative approach, based on observation and content analysis. Consequently, it was found that in Paraguay the mechanisms of popular participation that are regulated to enable the inclusion of citizens in the exercise of public political power are similar to those existing within the elections held within the Roman municipality. Particularly evident is the continuity of the Latin roots of the Paraguayan model of law, which, despite the mutations that have occurred over time, maintains its genesis, in that they are configured so that the people can make use of their sovereignty in decision making.