Reportage. Established two and a half years ago by the reform of the Constitution, the referendum of popular initiative was finally validated today by the government. This is a new right that is granted to citizens. The report is limited to a few specific areas: economic, social, environmental and public services reforms. Comment on archive images and infographic images.
"France is more beautiful because New Caledonia has decided to stay there," said Emmanuel MACRON in the early afternoon of Sunday, December 12, 2021 after New Caledonians voted "no" to more than 96% of the votes in the third independence referendum, organized under the Noumea agreements. A poll characterized by a record abstention, however, 43.9% turnout after the call for a boycott of the separatists against more than 85% in 2020. Interview by videoconference of Mickael FORREST (Member of the political bureau of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, the FLNKS and André FAZI, political scientist. This third and final referendum marks the end of the process provided for by the Noumea agreements. In 2018 and then in 2020 the New Caledonians had moved massively to the polls. The "no" has already been pronounced twice but with a short head. The gap between the camps tends to narrow.
Reporting in Federal Switzerland, in the canton of Apenzell, where, as in the 25 Swiss cantons, a demanding and direct democracy is practiced by a show of hands as in ancient Greece. A ritual that dates back several centuries in which every citizen can express himself freely with the exception of women who were denied this right in 1971 because men are fiercely opposed to it!
Reportage. After a reminder of what were the referendums of the 5th republic whose initiative fell to the head of state , presentation of the modalities of a referendum of popular initiative that should want the day. Commentary on factual images, infographics and archives in particular the rejection of the draft European constitution in 2005 and the "just yes" to the Maastricht Treaty, alternating with interviews with Aurélie FILIPETTI, PS MP, Guy CARCASSONNE, constitutionalist and Jeff Wittenberg set-up.
The opposition draws the referendum to try to stop the privatization of Aéroports de Paris. More than 200 MPs and senators from right and left rallied around this idea. If the government has not reacted in the polls, the French say they are opposed to this privatization. If such a referendum of shared initiative were to be held, it would be a first.
73,21 % de Oui et 26,79 % de Non au référendum sur le quinquennat qui a eu lieu hier, dimanche 24 septembre. C'est une victoire pour la réduction du mandat présidentiel proposé par le président de la République, Jacques Chirac, et défendu par le Premier ministre Lionel Jospin. Mais le vrai grand vainqueur du scrutin est l'abstention record, qui est de près de 70 %... Analyse des résultats et de ce fort taux d'abstention sur des images d'illustration de bureaux de vote.
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