La Rochelle is experimenting with a unique system: “living a day in the shoes of an elected official’ The idea? Propel “volunteer” citizens to the heart of municipal mysteries alongside the deputy mayors of the majority. The operation, called “live my life as elected officials’, aims to establish an exchange as much as to discover their activities and their constraints.
“Few people know how a municipality works or what the responsibilities of elected officials are,” says Pascal Daunit, deputy mayor.