This new representative body should ensure citizen watch and could influence city policy by submitting, for example, wishes to the Council of Paris.

At the town hall of Paris, we talk no more and no less “An unprecedented body on a global scale”. On the right we cough, lashing out rather than yet another way to muzzle the opposition. The Paris Council is due to vote this Thursday on the creation of a Citizens’ Assembly. Son’s goal: “Really involve Parisians in the development of public policies implemented in the capital”, we explain to the Town Hall. Composed of 100 citizens drawn by lot, this new body which will meet once a month must be from November.

“The project has been in the pipeline for some time”, says the deputy for citizen participation of the mayor of Paris, Anouch Toranian. Since 2019, more precisely. At that time, in the midst of the yellow vests crisis, a citizens’ deliberation organized after a sort of “big debate” on a Parisian scale called for the creation of a body to allow residents to participate in the making of public policy. . “We are in a very tense democratically context with record abstention, great mistrust of society towards institutions, it was the right moment to launch this assembly”, believe the elected representative of the 15th arrondissement.

Representativeness based on three main criteria

Concretely, this new body will meet for half a day by me …