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Re: The collective sovereign citizenship
Ababacar DIOP
Friday, 31 January 2003 17:46:40
The third idea of Jean Claude seems to me that is mixing the first two. Indeed, the implementation of this conception requires a * framework * in which citizens will Be represented by citizens.
The problem is not the definition of this * framework *, but what process and what form of organization must be used for its implementation.
The * framework *, is the WP, a place * where each Citizen should act as a sovereign in face of public affairs, that is to say that he has, in equality with the other Citizens, not only the right of being beneficiary, but especially the duty to dedicate himself to it *.
As the WP is the pivot of the pyramid, we necessarily need RP (Regional Parliaments), but also LP (Local Parliaments).
The problem would be then to know how to proceed in order to choose among ourselves those that will sit in these parliaments, knowing that the * voters * are the Citizens as well as the * elected * also.
The process or procedure of choosing * Parliamentarians * should to have place by way of elections or would we have to reinvent a new form of choice? In my opinion, in order to not to fall in the shortcomings of the democratic rule, we must reinvent a new form of choice that would not be the elections.
The elections are related to the election campaigns, which are a call to demagogy.
Criteria of eligibility must clearly be established through an equitable representativity. Because it would be again a pity that the North dominates the South in the WP.
Ababacar Diop
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