Power must return to the citizen, because politicians don’t handle it well The current political parties don’t handle your vote well. They lure you in with an appealing party programme, in which you see many positions you like. Once the elections have taken place and a government is formed, suddenly little remains of the positions…
“Do you vote? Do you feel heard? / Do you achieve anything? “No?” Makes sense. You vote for a person who doesn’t know you, and you don’t really know that person either. After you’ve voted for this person, this elected representative can do whatever they want… From dropping certain positions and putting them in…
Can you still see the forest for the trees? Do you hold the power? Do you have influence? Is your voice heard well? Yes? Then you’re fine! Stay right where you are. Trust in politics has been declining for years. That’s because we’re still saddled with a political system that originated in the 19th century.…
All eligible Dutch voters should be able to help decide on issues of social importance. At local, provincial, national and European level alike. This is only possible by holding binding citizens’ referendums on all important topics. This way, people become genuinely involved in political decision-making and direct democracy emerges. That is the challenge Walter Guijt…
Towards a real democracy: Binding referendums and administrative renewal Do we live in a truly democratic society? In a real democracy, the ultimate decision-making power lies with the population, not with politicians. Politicians advise, but the people decide. Our current parliamentary democracy, however, is the opposite of a democracy with binding referendums. Yet, ironically,…
At first, as an ethical humanist political party, we explicitly articulated at least 200 party positions; but stating our own positions actually clashes with our most important programme point… “the introduction of the self-learning and self-correcting Binding Citizens’ Consultation Democracy.” We want to give this model hands and feet by consistently representing the majority opinion…
