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A French Citizens’ Initiative Aims To Fix Democracy

January 27, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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A French Citizens’ Initiative Aims To Fix DemocracySome French citizens have adopted an intuitive meant to fix France’s democracy. Known as the Primaire Populaire, the initiative aims to unite the left behind one candidate for upcoming presidential election. This text by Romain Brunet is published by France24. Here is an excerpt:

The Primaire Populaire (People’s Primary) is a citizens’ initiative with an ambitious objective: to unite France’s weak and divided leftist parties behind a single candidate for the April presidential elections. In the process, it will be testing a novel voting method designed to counter mounting voter apathy and disenchantment with an electoral system that leaves many voters feeling left out.

Nearly half a million people registered for the primary, surpassing the organisers’ own expectations. They will choose between seven candidates in a four-day online primary that runs from Thursday morning and wraps up at 5pm on Sunday.

Of those seven only one prominent candidate, Socialist former justice minister Christiane Taubira, is willingly taking part, along with environmental activist Anna Agueb-Porterie, public health expert Charlotte Marchandise and MEP Pierre Larrouturou. But the three other heavyweights – leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Socialist Party candidate Anne Hidalgo and the Greens’ Yannick Jadot – have all said they will ignore the outcome of the primary, making its first objective – to unite the left – virtually unattainable.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums, Election Methods, Europe, France

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