An unprecedented exercise for the Economic, Social and Environmental Council: the EESC has decided to give a grand oral to presidential candidates in "January or February 2022".
The institution wants to invite itself into the countryside.
Speeches of about an hour will be scheduled before the members of this chamber - one of three assemblies provided for by the Constitution, which brings together professional organizations, unions, associations and NGOs.
Theme chosen for these hearings?
"The democratic question".
The new president of the ESEC, Thierry Beaudet, believes that the subject is hardly treated by the political class, even though the country is experiencing phenomena of tension and massive abstention ...
Among the questions, citizens' consultations, institutional reforms to be carried out ...
Among the files submitted to suitors who will agree to pass on the grill: elections, participation, citizen consultations, institutional reforms to be carried out, etc.
The institution hosted at the Palais d'Iéna in Paris has already contacted certain political groups to prepare for the event.
During the campaign, the EESC will not be idle.
Because, at the same time, at the very beginning of 2022, it will have to carry out its work on three very sensitive themes, which have been the subject of a referral by the government: jobs in tension, the acceptability of instruments of ecological transition (wind turbines , in particular) and abstention among young people.