A e-book to reinvent democracy on the native stage | EUROtoday

Book. In 2024, half of the world’s inhabitants of voting age was referred to as to the poll field, all ballots mixed. But the context was merciless to democracy: out of the 60 international locations that organized an election, 31 have been authoritarian regimes. In the international locations the place freedom nonetheless prevails, mistrust settles down and France is not any exception to this shock wave. According to the CEVIPOF political confidence barometer of 2025, solely 26 % of French folks have faith in politics, a traditionally low determine.

“It is in this context that the next municipal elections will take place in 2026”,, Observe Dorian Dreuil and Marinette Valiergue, each consultants related to the Jean Jaurès Foundation inside the Observatory of Political Life, of their work Cities, new democratic factories? (L’Aube, 88 pages, 6.90 euros). An area poll underneath pressure, although municipal democracy appears to expire of steam: since 2020, practically 2,400 mayors have resigned through the mandate.

However, the authors refuse to provide in to fatalism. They see the municipal elections of 2026 as a possibility to reinvent democracy on the native stage. “The conviction that forges this book is that if the cities invented democracy, then it is from there that democracy can be reborn”,, they are saying. To help their thesis, the 2 consultants went to fulfill engineers from democratic innovation, “From Oregon, the United States, from Tarn to Maine-et-Loire, via Drôme, France, Brussels, Belgium, to the borders of Norway, in Bergen”. A panorama of native initiatives is thus provided to readers who search to reconcile residents and politics.

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The e-book is first focused on citizen lists. Of a number of hundred, in 2014, their quantity elevated to a thousand, in 2020, and will rise to 10,000, by 2026. Worn by residents with out political expertise, they wish to put the premises on the coronary heart of public motion. In Plombières-les-Bains, within the Vosges, a citizen record was chosen in 2020 after having constructed its undertaking with the inhabitants.

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