Like the movement of "yellow vests", what had started as a simple social conflict could end in a real democratic crisis.
In October 2018, the revolt of the roundabouts began with a protest against the increase in fuel prices linked to the introduction of a new tax.
Quickly, however, the demand for the popular initiative referendum had become central.
In truth, more than a leftist fad, this reactivation of the ideal of direct democracy that the Swiss peacefully practice echoed the deep feeling of a large part of the French people of being increasingly excluded from the democratic game.
The France of the "yellow vests", supported for a long time by an overwhelming majority of the French, thus demanded a restoration of popular sovereignty beyond formal respect for the rules of the institutional game.
The movement protesting the pension reform in turn leads, ultimately, to the request for an initiative referendum…
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