Under the Additional Protocol to the Charter, dealing especially with the right to participate in local affairs, this right “denotes the right to seek to determine or to influence the exercise of a local authority's powers and responsibilities” (Article 1.2). Article 2 requiring implementing measures to give effect to this right, refers to “procedures for involving people which may include consultative processes, local referendums and petitions […]” (Article 2.ii.a) and it does not mention the recall.