Faced with a Citizen's Convention on the Climate (CCC) which turns into disaster, Emmanuel Macron imagined he could get out of the trap in which he himself had stuck himself by proposing a referendum which will be, according to the formulation adopted , either totally vain, or frightfully liberticide.
Let me explain.
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That the CCC was anything but a model of participatory democracy is obvious: to begin with, unlike what takes place in an assize jury, the people drawn by lot had the right to refuse to take part without reason. .
However, more than half of them declined the offer, which means that those who accepted were interested in the subject;
However, for this assembly to be representative, it would have been necessary to listen to everyone, including those who are indifferent or hostile.
Then, the question asked (roughly: what to do for the climate?) Was of infinite complexity, unlike what took place in this Ireland that Emmanuel Macron quotes in
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