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Citizens want to “shake up” municipal democracy

2020-02-27T18:57:47.827Z


To govern otherwise, this election sees the emergence of several hundred “participatory” lists.


The school director, never elected or inset, had never imagined one day claiming to be at the head of a town of 33,000 inhabitants. But after numerous working circles and general assemblies, his comrades chose Cécile Marenzoni as the head of the list of "Saint-Médard-en-Jalles tomorrow", during an election without a candidate. " I hadn't foreseen that at all, I'm rather one of those who speak the least, " she laughs. I thought for four days and took the liberty of saying yes. Because I knew I was not alone. "

In this Gironde commune, as in many other French cities, a participative list wants to “ shake up practices ”. No program, " no promise ", but a commitment and 256 " proposals ", which will evolve according to the mandate and the commitment of the inhabitants. And a third of candidates from the “ drawn ” list: 800 people from electoral registers were contacted and seven joined the list. People who don't

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Source: lefigaro

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