“As far as institutions are concerned, the main thing is to restore citizens’ confidence, to allow them to make their voices heard and not just at election time. This is the purpose of the Citizens’ Initiative Referendum (RIC), through which citizens who gather enough signatures can dismiss elected officials, propose or repeal a law and modify the Constitution.
In addition, the recognition of the blank vote, the introduction of compulsory voting and the establishment of a threshold of votes cast to validate an election will make it possible to reinforce the legitimacy of the ballots and of the elected representatives. Eventually, an evolution of our regime towards a “6th Republic” should make it possible to put an end to the “presidential monarchy” that we know and which gives disproportionate powers to a single man: the President of the Republic.
At the local level, it seems important to reaffirm the role of the municipality as a space for local democracy. The policies carried out in recent years have resulted in a drop in our resources with the reduction of grants under the mandate of François Hollande, in the reduction of our autonomy with the abolition of housing tax by Emmanuel Macron. And above all by distrust, even contempt for local elected officials.
This is why I defend a program which will restore to the municipalities the role of basic cell of local democracy, allow their free association (end of the imposed “XXL” intermunicipalities) and will fully involve them in the decisions and the implementation of the investments ecological planning. We will rebalance the overall operating grant to fight against territorial inequalities. We will overhaul local taxation (property tax in particular) to make it progressive and that everyone pays up to their real total assets.
Finally, it is necessary to affirm the three levels of decentralized organization (municipalities, departments, regions) to put an end to the superimposition of technocratic levels (metropolises, giant intermunicipalities, etc.) which distances citizens from decision-making.
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