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Connection with ecology and social justice (not making the poorest bear the ecological transition). Engage the debate: risks of capture and loss of momentum The upcoming public debate will test the limits of mobilization and civil disobedience. One of the internal limits is the self-selection of the participants, who often only represent themselves and therefore interests rather personal than social in the strict sense.
One of the external limits is the use of mayors and local elected officials to make contact and mediate phone number list between the yellow vests and political representatives at the national level. The physical presence of elected officials tends to increase participation; it reveals that individuals really want to talk to them and that, for them, participation is a way of getting closer to representation, not a substitution for it. But this interaction and this mediation only come to the aid of democracy if the projects mobilize and the values encourage citizenship.
Experiments of this type that have taken place in the United States (and in certain Nordic countries) point to two other limits: The interest of the population in political decision-making does not occur in its entirety: it is the initiators of the projects who invest the most and the longest; This type of action does not allow the masses to control their elites for too long: Emmanuel Macron has already set out a consultation program completed in advance which very closely frames the interaction with the base and the follow-up to be given.
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