Demosciocracy — The power of the Chambers and the Executive

1. The Territory: the fundamental basis of power

Demosciocracy rests first of all on the Territory. It is the fundamental unit of representation, organisation and upward transmission of the needs of the population.

Each Territory has its Council, constituted according to the fundamental principle of balance:

50% representatives of the People and 50% representatives of the Corporations and Services, representing the economic and professional activities and the active forces of the Territory.

This organisation must never be reversed: power starts from the Territory and rises towards the national institutions.

Each Territory thus appoints its representatives to the two national Chambers:

• the Chamber of the People, directly representing the citizens and the Territories;
• the Chamber of Corporations and Services, representing the professional and economic activities and the services necessary to society.

As the representatives are renewed according to the annual principle laid down by Demosciocracy, the Chambers are continually renewed from the base. They therefore do not constitute a permanent political class.

2. The two Chambers: the centre of national power

The two Chambers bring together the representation of all the French Territories.

Together they constitute the national decision-making centre.

They draw up the common rules, define the major orientations of the country, determine the national missions and monitor their execution.

The principle is simple:

the Territories pass up the needs; the Chambers compare them, organise them and decide; the Executive implements their decisions.

There must be permanent movement in both directions.

Territories → Chambers → Executive → Territories

but also:

Territories → Executive → Chambers

Thus, when a national decision encounters a difficulty in its application, the information must be able to rise immediately. The Executive then presents the difficulties observed to the Chambers and may propose adaptations to them.

It does not, however, decide alone on a new fundamental orientation: the decision belongs to the two Chambers.

3. Recruitment of the Executive

The Executive does not come from a permanent political class.

The teams capable of providing the executive leadership of the country publicly present their organisation, their skills, their methods and their ability to fulfil the missions defined for the country.

Recruitment takes place in two stages.

In a first stage, all French citizens take part in a national vote. This vote makes it possible to retain the four teams that come out on top.

In a second stage, the two Chambers examine these four teams and choose the one that will receive responsibility for the Executive.

The People therefore intervene directly in the initial selection, while the representatives from all the Territories make the final choice.

The chosen team does not, however, receive power independent of the Chambers.

It receives a mission of execution.

4. Function of the Executive

The Executive is the administrative and operational hand of the two Chambers.

Its fundamental function is to transform their decisions into concrete action.

It directs the national administration necessary for this execution, coordinates the major common missions and transmits the national orientations to the structures responsible for carrying them out.

It must also ensure the reverse movement: gathering the difficulties, results, needs and proposals coming from the Territories and presenting them to the two Chambers.

The Executive therefore has a capacity for proposal drawn from its experience of execution.

But proposing is not deciding.

When it considers that a rule should be changed, that an organisation is working badly or that an expense is useless, it informs the Chambers, provides the necessary elements and possibly proposes a solution. The Chambers decide.

The Executive then applies that decision.

5. Accountability and revocation

The Executive remains permanently accountable to the two Chambers.

It does not have power guaranteed for a period that would allow it to oppose them lastingly.

If it no longer carries out its missions correctly, if it departs from the decisions of the Chambers, if it becomes ineffective or if serious faults are observed, the two Chambers may end its functions according to the constitutional rules provided.

The principle must be that of permanent accountability:

a function exists for as long as it is correctly exercised.

The same logic must apply to the main officials placed under the authority of the Executive.

6. Territories and Regions: two different functions

The Region must not become a political level above the Territory.

The Territory remains autonomous in its competences and constitutes the basis of Demosciocracy.

The Region is mainly a relay for the organisation, coordination and control of certain major national missions when an organisation going beyond the limits of a single Territory is necessary.

Education provides an example.

The two Chambers determine the major common orientations: fundamental knowledge, national objectives, training requirements and principles allowing general equality among citizens.

The Executive organises their implementation.

The Regions may provide the coordination and control necessary for this application.

But the Territories keep the capacity to pass up their realities, their difficulties and their needs.

The system therefore never works only from the top down.

It works constantly in both directions.

7. Defence and major national functions

Some missions naturally require a single national organisation.

Defence and the armed forces are the main example.

They come under the orientations and control of the two Chambers, their operational implementation being entrusted to the Executive and to the competent professional structures.

Other major common functions may follow a comparable organisation when the interest of the whole country requires unity of operation.

It will, however, be necessary to distinguish precisely, in the Constitution, what really belongs to the national level and what must remain the responsibility of the Territories.

8. A deliberately light national administration

Demosciocracy must avoid the multiplication of administrations, bodies, commissions and agencies whose functions overlap.

Every administrative structure must correspond to an identifiable and necessary mission.

When a body no longer has any demonstrable usefulness, when its function can be performed by an existing structure or when it constitutes an administrative duplication, it must be possible to abolish it.

The administration is a tool in the service of the population, and not an organisation intended to ensure its own permanence.

Digital technologies and artificial intelligence will make it possible to automate a large part of administrative tasks, checks and exchanges of information.

The objective is twofold: to obtain effective control while considerably reducing unnecessary formalities for citizens and businesses.

9. Finance, taxes and redistribution

The Executive also ensures, under the authority of the two Chambers, the organisation of the collection of national resources.

The level of levies must be limited to what is necessary for the functioning of the missions decided collectively.

The revenues must then be allocated and redistributed according to transparent rules allowing:

the functioning of common services, national missions, the means necessary for the Territories and the indispensable solidarity between the different parts of the country.

The Chambers determine the rules and monitor their application.

The Executive collects, administers and redistributes in accordance with these decisions.

Computer systems and artificial intelligence must allow permanent control of financial flows and reduce administrative costs, without multiplying the constraints weighing on businesses and citizens.

10. General principle of the demosciocratic Executive

The whole system can finally be summed up by this chain:

THE PEOPLE AND THE CORPORATIONS
↓
THE TERRITORIES
↓
CHAMBER OF THE PEOPLE + CHAMBER OF CORPORATIONS AND SERVICES
↓
DECISION AND ORIENTATION
↓
EXECUTIVE
↓
ADMINISTRATIVE AND NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
↓
REGIONS AND TERRITORIES ACCORDING TO THEIR COMPETENCES
↓
RESULTS, NEEDS AND DIFFICULTIES
↓
FEEDBACK TO THE EXECUTIVE AND THE TWO CHAMBERS

The essential principle is therefore:

The Territories constitute the basis of power. The two Chambers, drawn from the Territories, decide on the common orientations. The Executive, recruited with the participation of the People and then chosen by the two Chambers, administers and executes their decisions. It reports permanently to the Chambers and may propose to them the adaptations made necessary by the experience of execution.