In the audiovisual industry, this is called counter-programming.
While debates in plenary session on the climate bill that they deem not very ambitious begin this Monday, March 29 in the National Assembly, the ten deputies of the Ecologie Démocratie Solidarité collective have reserved a small surprise for the government.
The same day from 4 p.m. until April 16, they will organize on the Twitch streaming platform 80 hours of debates (accessible via debatsansfiltre.fr), simultaneously to those which will take place in the hemicycle.
The objective is to make their voices heard in parallel with a parliamentary discussion that they consider “locked” by the majority, but also to comment on the discussions in the Assembly and to give the floor to guests.
An event called "Debate #sansfiltre", in reference to the words of Emmanuel Macron who had initially promised the submission "without filter" to the parliamentary debate of the proposals from the 150 citizens drawn by lot from the Citizen's Convention for the climate.
An "augmented" debate
"We are proposing a hacking of the debate because on this emblematic bill, there was no question of keeping us silent", underlines the deputy of Essonne Cédric Villani, who promises "something quite joyful".
One way of protesting against the majority's choice to declare 25% of the 7000 amendments tabled “inadmissible” and to reduce the speaking time granted to non-attached deputies, including those of the Ecologie Démocratie Solidarité collective.
The latter will therefore retransmit the Assembly debates on Twitch, which will be analyzed live.
The ten deputies (including the former Minister of Ecology Delphine Batho, Guillaume Chiche, Paula Forteza, Matthieu Orphelin or Aurélien Taché) promise in a press release "an
increased
debate
where the real level of ambition of the provisions voted in as and when will be evaluated, the interventions of the government and parliamentarians
fact-checked,
the amendments declared inadmissible or
silent, for
lack of speaking time, defended and explained… ”
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They also promise to give the floor to participants online and to involve "dozens of civil society actors, associations, experts and experts, scientists, members of the Citizen's Climate Convention. ".
This Monday, the climatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte, member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), director Cyril Dion and Hubert Hacquard, citizen, member of the Citizen's Climate Convention, will parade on Twitch this Monday.
"Nothing will prevent the debate for a real climate law", proclaim the deputy streamers.