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Guillaume Tabard: “Citizen participation or improvisation?”

2021-01-04T19:49:53.942Z


COUNTER-POINT - What will be the exact mission of the thirty-five citizens drawn by lot to control the vaccination strategy? No one can answer with clarity.


The debate on the opening of shops or the maintenance of cultural or sporting events had underlined the insoluble antagonism between the health crisis and the economic crisis.

The drawing of lots of thirty-five citizens to control the vaccine strategy leads to a new confusing telescoping: can we respond to both the health crisis and the democratic crisis?

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Emmanuel Macron had taken out this "boot" to get out of the crisis of "yellow vests".

With immediate effect: the great national debate had met with great success and the anger had - temporarily?

- arrested.

With the Citizen's Climate Convention, this ambition for “participatory” democracy had found a first outlet.

Not without questions about the method or doubts and criticisms about its conclusions.

But the plasters had to be wiped off.

But precisely: insofar as such an operation could not by itself resolve all the democratic malaise, it was necessary

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Source: lefigaro

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