Bonjour, Bonsoir,
Comme certains le savent, j’habite en Angleterre maintenant, et à Londres précisément depuis janvier.
Toujours intéressé par la politique 2.0, je me suis mis en quête de trouver quelques associations locales où je pourrai apprendre de ce qui se fait sur place et apporter mon expérience.
J’ai pu ainsi participer à une conférence de Brett Hennig sur la mise en place d’assemblées tirées au sort. Il tient un site web appelé « Sortition Foundation » https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/. (cliquer sur « list of the best sortition short films » sur la page d’accueil afin de voir de belles initiatives à travers le globe)
Depuis j’ai échangé avec lui et je lui bien entendu parlé de #MAVOIX. Il m’a donc demandé de lui écrire un petit article de blog en anglais qu’il pourrait référencer sur son site, ce que je trouve une bonne idée.
J’ai donc écrit quelques paragraphes que je vous propose ci-dessous et aussi sur un pad, pour ceux qui souhaiteraient corriger/améliorer ce texte.
Je précise aussi via ce billet (même si ce n’est pas le sujet) que je serai fort ravi que les personnes qui ont enregistré les comptes rendues du REX puissent les rétribuer sur ce site ou sur le wiki. Si vous n’avez pas le temps, et ça je le comprends, pouvez vous au moins les proposer sur wetransfer ? Ce serait bien que tous les contributeurs puissent écouter/lire ce qui est ressorti de cet évènement.
Au plaisir,
PE
The collective #MAVOIX started in France in 2015 among friends with the observation of the failure of our Representative Democracy.
The idea was to regroup citizens from different horizons to collaborate and discuss about a way to hack the National Assembly and take part of the decision on every law. The aim was to present several deputies, choose by sortition and equally gendered, for the Parliament election that were taking place in June 2017. Once elected, the deputies wouldn’t vote on their own or rely on a program but will vote according to an online plateform where every citizens, over 18 years old, could vote. Thus for example, if 10 deputies #MAVOIX were at the Assembly, and the result on the online plateform about a law were 40% YES, 30% NO and 30% ABSTENTION, the deputies would vote proportionaly (4 YES, 3 NO, 3 ABSTENTION).
To prepare this campaign, the collective worked for two years without any leaders and was unpersonalised. The decision where made horizontaly, discussion after discussion to find a consensus. If people disagre, they could « fork », which mean both options were tested and after some times, the most relevant issue became, by itself, the way to follow. Online Forum, local/global meeting and Opensource software were the tools used to deliberate on any choices. Contributors could participate in their free time and they could bring any idea to resonate the campaign.
Finally, the collective managed to : run a campaign in 43 circonscriptions (over 577 seats) ; financed it with micro-funding and received around 11000 votes from the French and overseas territories. Even if any deputies were elected, the collective enable non-professionnal political actors, with different political views, to empower themselves and create an unconventional campaign.
From the beginning there was no dogma, and it’s still not the case. Every choices that have been made were an experimentation, with their success or their setback. It convinced the contributors that all the acknowledge that have been develop will feed them individually for their further implications depending the area (political, social care, associations, entrepeneurship…).
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