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Belgium to become a Direct Democracy.
Dominique N.
started this petition to
The People of Belgium.
Today, Belgium is ruled by an elected group of people who vowed to take decisions benefiting the People of Belgium, but the truth is that once they are elected, they can pretty much do what they want to do, as long as the parliament voted in favour of these decisions. And this isn't always in the best interest of the majority of the People. On top of that, many decisions are being voted for without the Belgian People knowing about this before it got approved. To change this, and take control over our own Country, I propose to turn Belgium into a direct democracy.
A direct democracy is much closer to the beginning of democratic legislation. The further away from these original principles (the people choose together), the more corrupted it has become. We have arrived at a point where the People think they have a vote on the matter, but in reality they only choose the faces of the government and not the spirit of it. To resolve this corruption we should take a few steps back and relieve the governing instances and politicians from their power.
To achieve a real democracy we propose the following:
- The ruling organ becomes a Council of members who have vowed to follow the will of the people and not impose laws on them without having informed them, having received feedback and a vote from The People of Belgium. The Council members are selected from the general public and are not bounded by a political party. This will save us a lot of money since we can cancel all subsidiaries to political parties.
To hold selections instead of elections. Candidate Council members are selected by the public. People can suggest candidates and the most popular candidates (without an electoral process) can agree to become a member of the Council.
- Members to the Council won't have to quit their other activities. They agree to come together a few times a month and to have contact with each other to discuss the situation of the Country and come up with alterations. They receive a minimum wage (this can be altered when we have a direct democracy), but their expenses to gather plus accomodation and food is paid for by Belgium. In return the Council members will be available for public interaction (question and answer hour) on a regular basis.
- The People can suggest members to the Council by upvoting them (or proposing a candidate) on the national forum. For smaller Councils, the same can be done but bounded by a smaller region. A Council member can get selected for several Councils. For Belgium we propose to start with a City Council, a Provincial Council, a Regional Council (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels) and a National Council. Councils should communicate in English, plus the most popular mother language of its People inhabiting the region it is assigned to.
- Direct democracy implies that the deciding power is with the People. The Council proposes changes in law; this gets communicated to the Public and discussed in the (national) media and on a website. People can ask questions and will receive answers through these channels. When the public is considered informed and has had time for reflection, a voting takes place (probably through SMS since most people own a registered phone number) with a simple 'accept', 'revise' or 'decline'. The Council follows up to the result of this poll. In case the difference between the two biggest preferences is too small (<10%, this can change as well), we consider the public to be divided and hold a second information round. If after this round the public is still divided, the change in law is canceled in case it isn't urgent. If it's an urgent case, we will hold a third round and the majority its preference gets followed.
We hope this cleared a few things up and for further questions, you can go to CCCbelgium.jouwweb.be and post a comment under the explanation of what a CCC stands for.
We hope that Belgium is ready to become a direct democracy.
Sincerely yours,
Dominique Nicodème
A direct democracy is much closer to the beginning of democratic legislation. The further away from these original principles (the people choose together), the more corrupted it has become. We have arrived at a point where the People think they have a vote on the matter, but in reality they only choose the faces of the government and not the spirit of it. To resolve this corruption we should take a few steps back and relieve the governing instances and politicians from their power.
To achieve a real democracy we propose the following:
- The ruling organ becomes a Council of members who have vowed to follow the will of the people and not impose laws on them without having informed them, having received feedback and a vote from The People of Belgium. The Council members are selected from the general public and are not bounded by a political party. This will save us a lot of money since we can cancel all subsidiaries to political parties.
To hold selections instead of elections. Candidate Council members are selected by the public. People can suggest candidates and the most popular candidates (without an electoral process) can agree to become a member of the Council.
- Members to the Council won't have to quit their other activities. They agree to come together a few times a month and to have contact with each other to discuss the situation of the Country and come up with alterations. They receive a minimum wage (this can be altered when we have a direct democracy), but their expenses to gather plus accomodation and food is paid for by Belgium. In return the Council members will be available for public interaction (question and answer hour) on a regular basis.
- The People can suggest members to the Council by upvoting them (or proposing a candidate) on the national forum. For smaller Councils, the same can be done but bounded by a smaller region. A Council member can get selected for several Councils. For Belgium we propose to start with a City Council, a Provincial Council, a Regional Council (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels) and a National Council. Councils should communicate in English, plus the most popular mother language of its People inhabiting the region it is assigned to.
- Direct democracy implies that the deciding power is with the People. The Council proposes changes in law; this gets communicated to the Public and discussed in the (national) media and on a website. People can ask questions and will receive answers through these channels. When the public is considered informed and has had time for reflection, a voting takes place (probably through SMS since most people own a registered phone number) with a simple 'accept', 'revise' or 'decline'. The Council follows up to the result of this poll. In case the difference between the two biggest preferences is too small (<10%, this can change as well), we consider the public to be divided and hold a second information round. If after this round the public is still divided, the change in law is canceled in case it isn't urgent. If it's an urgent case, we will hold a third round and the majority its preference gets followed.
We hope this cleared a few things up and for further questions, you can go to CCCbelgium.jouwweb.be and post a comment under the explanation of what a CCC stands for.
We hope that Belgium is ready to become a direct democracy.
Sincerely yours,
Dominique Nicodème
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