The imperative mandate is a political system in which representatives are required to enact policies in accordance with orders or instructions received from the voters.
Failure to follow these instructions may result in the representative being dismissed or recalled.
[1] It was embraced in the Paris Commune and by the Council Communism movement, as well as by Vladimir Lenin in "The State and Revolution"[4] and by the Zapatistas in Mexico.
[6] The elimination of an imperative mandate was one of the constitutional effects of the French Revolution of 1789.
As described by Ernesto Galli della Loggia: "Every single person elected by the people, every parliamentarian, is the representative of the nation-people as a whole, and therefore the depositary of its entire sovereign will (...) They must necessarily represent, equally symbolically, the whole people, the electoral body in its entirety.