The Travelling Assembly

[Please note this latest version was made public on 25 May 2025, after the final meeting (External link) of the 2024/25 pilot Assembly]

Tensions? (Florence spirit)

Assembly members disagreed on the ideal relationship between wide-ranging-scale democratic mobilisation and, simultaneously, electoral democracy as it functions today in more densely populated countries. Some saw citizens as watchdogs, to protect checks and balances but others feared citizens do not have the competence or the education required for taking wise decisions. Mauve they should only be involved with the issues they know something about? Others argued that direct democracy is rather utopian or inapplicable in large and congested peripheries.