When does voting take place once an initiative is qualified for ballot?

Ecuador

Ecuador

Answer
Not specified by legislation
Source

CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OFECUADOR (2008)

http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Ecuador/english08.html

Article 103. Grass-roots legal andregulatory initiatives shall be exercised to propose the creation, amendment orrepeal of legal regulations to the Legislative Branch of Government or anyother body that has a regulatory jurisdiction. It must benefit from the backingof a number accounting for no less than zero point twenty-five percent (0.25%)of the persons registered in the voter registration list of the correspondingjurisdiction.

Those who propose a grass-roots initiativeshall participate, by means of their representatives, in discussing the projectin the corresponding body, which shall have a term of one-hundred eighty (180)days to review the proposal; if the proposal is not reviewed within thosetime-limits, it will enter into force.

When it involves a bill, the President ofthe Republic shall be able amend the bill but not to veto it completely.

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