David Saforcada
State, institutions and administration
113 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 112 · Campaign proposal or statement : 1
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Reserve national referendums to the head of state and introduce local citizen-initiated referendums.
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Deconcentrate administration without political decentralisation, reinforce unity against regionalism and reject intermediary bodies described as obstructive.
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Limit pooling of sovereign powers to a defined purpose, with review, French oversight and a route to reclaim national authority.
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Require popular consent for major sovereignty transfers, a European refoundation or withdrawal from the EU.
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Identify and prioritise critical dependencies in communications, defence, health, food, energy, financing and infrastructure.
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Refer treaties concerning sovereign powers, borders, defence, justice, citizenship, public finances or institutions to the Constitutional Council before ratification.
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Amend the Constitution and article 55 to restore national legislative authority; inform Parliament and renegotiate, lawfully suspend or terminate incompatible commitments.
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Prohibit essential transfers without popular approval and expansions of powers without explicit consent; guarantee recovery of shared powers.
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Continuously assess territorial threats and require constitutional procedures and necessary consent for any sovereignty change, including overseas territories.
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Maintain updated sovereign mapping and resource land, sea and air border monitoring; resolve disputes through negotiation and international law.
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Assess every diplomatic, military or European decision’s effects on each overseas basin, making security, equality and development national requirements.
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Provide every territory with a state-continuity plan covering command, communications, essential services, reinforcements, evacuation and emergency supplies, tested regularly with civilian and military coordination.
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Keep coercion, control, investigation and command as national public functions; permit technical outsourcing under public oversight without transferring decision-making or data control.
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Require sovereignty assessments for major laws, treaties, EU rules, military agreements and critical contracts, prepared by existing departments under the prime minister and sent to Parliament and published except protected secrets.
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Publish an annual sovereignty report for parliamentary debate; assign each commitment an owner, indicator and timetable, with detailed financing in a separate document.
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Require every public authority to identify its mandate, legal limits and accountability body.
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Give referendum decisions priority within their scope and retain parliamentary powers elsewhere; reserve national initiative to the president except constitutionally mandatory referendums.
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Retain Fifth Republic principles with an identifiable decision-maker for each decision, without an assembly-dominated system or compulsory coalition.
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Use referendums for lasting changes to the national settlement and major reforms chosen by the president, with significant, implementable questions.
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Expand article 11 to major national directions and economic, social, environmental, territorial and sovereign reforms; no petition may compel a national referendum.
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Require referendums for constitutional amendments affecting sovereignty after both chambers pass identical text; rule out ratification by Congress.
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Write into article 89 that only another referendum may amend, repeal or undermine a referendum decision; permit faithful technical implementation subject to constitutional review.
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Retain Congress and its qualified majority for government amendments affecting neither sovereignty nor referendum decisions; retain referendums for parliamentary amendment proposals and publicly justify the chosen procedure.
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Limit each question to one intelligible main subject; publish text, reasons and legal effects before campaigning; have the Constitutional Council review procedure, unity, fundamental rights and feasibility.
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Send every electoral household a balanced dossier; provide ARCOM pluralism and CNCCFP financial oversight, ban foreign-power-funded campaigning and donations, and strengthen polling and digital-ad transparency.
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Abolish the shared-initiative referendum and reject national citizen-initiated referendums; above an unspecified geographically distributed signature threshold, guarantee a response, hearing, debate and vote on petitions without compelling a presidential referendum.
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Retain popular presidential election, government accountability to the Assembly and judicial independence; review emergency powers, dissolution and oversight only to strengthen safeguards and coherence.
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Maintain direct universal presidential elections with eligibility rules balancing seriousness, equality and access for genuine political currents.
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Restore a seven-year presidential term renewable without a constitutional term-count limit.
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Decouple presidential and legislative elections; retain dissolution to resolve political conflict without automatically using it to manufacture a majority after each presidential election.
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Allow the president publicly and voluntarily to stake continuation in office on a referendum and require consequences after rejection, without turning every referendum into a plebiscite.
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Maintain parliamentary scrutiny, legislation, taxation, spending approval and evaluation; prevent referendums from exempting routine executive actions from scrutiny.
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Reduce the combined membership of the two chambers replacing the Assembly, Senate and CESE to 450; remove national, regional and intermunicipal duplication without forcing municipal mergers.
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Set the Assembly at 300 MPs; redraw districts independently using public demographic criteria with representation for every department, overseas community and French citizens abroad; strengthen staff and oversight resources.
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Retain two-round single-member legislative elections and reject nationwide proportional representation.
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Merge the Senate and CESE into a 150-member chamber representing territories and economic, social and civic groups, publishing votes and evaluations.
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Compose the new chamber of 110 territorial members indirectly elected by local officeholders and 40 economic, social and civic members selected by transparent colleges, without discretionary government appointments.
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Give the merged chamber second readings, proposals and evaluations; retain the Assembly’s final say on ordinary and financial laws and government confidence, while requiring the other chamber’s agreement on organic laws governing territories and its own status.
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Strengthen amendments, inquiries, document access and opposition scrutiny; impose enforceable government response deadlines and limit fast-track procedures and ordinances with stated reasons.
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Allow multiple elected offices except necessary incompatibilities, but only one chosen allowance without substitute compensation; publish offices, attendance, allowance and benefits.
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Require parties to respect sovereignty, internal democracy, transparent nominations and member equality under common rules for debate and candidacy access.
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Apply public broadcast-pluralism criteria; require major platforms to publish political-ad libraries, sponsors and main campaign recommendation criteria.
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Replace automatic party subsidies with an equal voucher for every adult French citizen, taxable or not, confidentially allocated through the annual tax return; cap the annually budgeted envelope, pay parties directly and retain unallocated credits in the state budget.
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Condition vouchers on certified accounts, disclosure of major lenders and CNCCFP scrutiny; retain capped private donations and dues without tax benefits and ban direct or indirect funding by foreign powers or foreign legal entities.
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Directly and equally fund printing and distribution of official posters and candidate statements for every properly registered candidacy.
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Require a clean criminal-record bulletin no. 2 for every candidacy; remove elected officials and ban them for life after final convictions for embezzlement, corruption or fraud, with judicial safeguards and no sanction based merely on accusation.
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Create a single official ballot with random candidate order and one box to mark; no choice counts as blank, multiple choices or identifying marks are invalid; the state funds and supplies ballots at every round.
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Keep physical voting, supervised boxes and public counting as the norm; offer accessible secure proxies; prohibit compulsory electronic voting and require auditable, reversible, publicly controlled technology with offline backup.
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Establish a permanent election-interference system involving electoral authorities, services, regulator and platforms under parliamentary and judicial scrutiny, targeting covert operations rather than dissent.
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Prohibit municipal abolition or merger against residents’ and representatives’ wishes; allow voluntary shared services and guarantee access to technical support and territorial state services.
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Confirm departments as the tier for solidarity and local services; clearly allocate powers and funding among the state, departments and municipalities.
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End compulsory intermunicipal structures, make cooperation contractual and reversible, and review and potentially restore forcibly transferred powers.
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Abolish elected regional government; turn regions into project and planning areas governed by the state and departments with identifiable mandates and budgets.
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Create municipal and departmental citizen-initiated referendums within local powers after an unspecified organic-law signature threshold; make results binding and reversible only by another vote except national-law changes or publicly established impossibility.
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Give prefects and territorial state services resources and adaptation powers, with one lead authority and published results for each policy within the state-department-municipality structure.
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Remove duplicate reporting within one year; provide one file and territorial contact with in-person access, coordinated risk-based inspections and correction without penalty except fraud, concealment or serious harm.
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Require French in government, interfaces and procurement, with French documentation and internal meetings except operational needs involving foreign partners; require clear administrative language and versions adapted to reading difficulties.
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Represent all French territories and maritime areas legibly in maps, curricula and communications; incorporate overseas territories from the start of national policymaking.
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Adapt rules and means to territorial circumstances under shared objectives without reducing safety or freedoms, respecting cultures, languages and constitutional statuses.
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Publish an annual maritime report to Parliament and territorial assemblies measuring presence, rescue, ports, jobs, energy and protection; separate national, EU, local and private funding.
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Close gaps in water, sanitation, electricity, healthcare, schooling, justice, security, digital and administration according to urgency and population; use procurement to support local maintenance, technicians and spare-part stocks.
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Stabilise essential public posts, train officials for territorial conditions, give state representatives funding and decision authority and involve local governments before decisions, with national crisis solidarity.
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Pre-position water, medicines, fuel, generators, telecoms and engineering resources in each basin; retain independent initial response, strengthen civil reserves and training, hold annual exercises and publish post-disaster reviews.
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Unite maritime and overseas affairs in a full ministry using existing operators; publish a baseline within six months, issue annual reports and regularly visit basins with tracked decisions.
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Programme maritime and overseas policies through 2035 in coordination with defence, separating appropriations and including maintenance and staffing costs, with outcome-based review and separate detailed financing.
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Sign a France sur Mer contract for each territory with priorities, resources, powers, deadlines and indicators, allowing status-dependent adaptations and cooperation, with publication and annual local review.
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Refocus the sea-and-coast council on evaluation and hold an annual stakeholder conference in each basin without another administrative tier, with full early consultation on major projects.
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Give the state social strategy, departments local solidarity and municipalities reception duties; avoid new agencies where existing administrations can act and publish responsibilities and outcomes.
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Guarantee a territorial baseline of essential services and human assistance with administration, with suitable transport and healthcare in rural, suburban and overseas areas.
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Secure parliamentary approval of a multi-year family strategy and framework law, a public dashboard on births, care, poverty, justice, maintenance, health and placements, lawful data sharing and annual independent evaluation without a new administration; finance separately.
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Abolish regional health agencies without equivalent replacements; retain national scientific functions and create prefect-led departmental health-autonomy directorates without separate legal personality or boards; use local contracts, clinically competent decisions and interdepartmental coordination limited to university hospitals, rare equipment and crises.
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Remove redundant surveys and applications, replace an old procedure for every new one and reuse existing data; support school administration, with local operational autonomy but national curricula, diplomas and employment guarantees.
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Vote an ecological strategy and framework law, with a public dashboard for domestic/imported carbon, water, soil, biodiversity, energy and costs; coordinate existing bodies without another agency, with local contacts, experimentation and annual accountability.
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Measure administration through quality, speed, accessibility and achieved goals rather than texts, meetings or budget consumption.
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Make simplicity a right through plain-language procedures, identified necessary documents and competent authorities, and support for complex situations.
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Set no general job-cut target before examining missions and needs; procedure removal may lead to redeployment rather than job loss.
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Protect core state functions, health, teaching, oversight and reception from indiscriminate cuts and strengthen local operational services.
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Assign each policy an identifiable responsible authority, budget lead and legal powers with outcome accountability.
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Guarantee essential administrative access nationwide and human alternatives for people unable to use digital services alone.
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Create a permanent public rules register identifying origin, date, authority and obligations to detect duplication and contradictions.
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Require an impact sheet for each rule covering objective, affected people, costs, administrative time, checks, sanctions and alternatives; allow examination to be deferred when assessment is insufficient.
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Impose a six-month moratorium on new administrative obligations except emergencies, security, justice, public health, sovereignty or justified exceptional necessity.
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Adopt rules only where no simpler alternative exists, proportion obligations and sanctions to risk and codify in accessible language.
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Offset each new burden with at least equivalent relief in time, cost and complexity, expressly justifying security/health/justice/emergency exceptions.
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Provide evaluation dates and suitable sunset clauses with annual repeal/codification legislation; enact the first general law within six months removing useless, contradictory or unworkable rules.
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Publish and update a mission map identifying decision-maker, executor, overseer and funder.
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Name a lead authority and remove redundant interventions, processing necessary consultations simultaneously through a shared file.
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Audit agencies/operators for distinct missions and added value; merge, reintegrate or abolish where unproven, saving first on leadership, headquarters and duplication.
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Limit advisory committees’ duration, renewing only after publishing activity, costs and follow-up; automatically terminate inactive, ineffective or duplicate bodies.
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Refocus central administrations on strategy, coherence and evaluation, devolving operational decisions with resources and accountability.
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Limit reports and indicators to used data and prohibit repeated entry; make external consultancy exceptional, justified and public where expertise already exists in the state.
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Base territorial organisation on the state as national guarantor, departments for coordination/solidarity/engineering and municipalities for local democracy, according to each level’s capacity.
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Preserve municipal decision-making, using pooled services to support rather than dispossess municipalities.
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Make departments the pivot for solidarity, expertise and coordination, with prefectural teams able to resolve procedures and support projects.
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Assign the region planning, infrastructure, training and cross-department investment functions without duplicating state/departments through a super-administration; this passage does not specify its political status.
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Review NOTRe, remove imposed intermunicipal transfers lacking service gains, make cooperation voluntary and restore municipal powers where effective through territorial legislation.
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Strengthen prefects and regulated derogation powers against disproportionate effects, with response deadlines and accessible reasons safeguarding equality.
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Apply once-only provision to information already held and lawfully shareable, with secure data and rights to inspect/correct.
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Give each major procedure one paper or digital file, short prefilled forms and a tracking contact, with administrations coordinating internally.
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Make announced deadlines enforceable, with delay triggering approval where appropriate, justification or higher-authority referral, precisely defining safety and third-party-right exceptions.
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Guarantee correction of honest errors with advice before disproportionate sanctions, while sanctioning organised fraud and deliberate repeat offences.
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Prohibit digital-only essential procedures, retain physical, telephone or mobile assistance through local services without replacing users’ consent.
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Test each obligation for micro/small firms, proportion reporting/checks/penalties to risk and means, stabilise commencement dates and prohibit repeated demands in another format.
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Subject local rules to a municipality test; a reasoned negative CNEN opinion suspends commencement until a newly justified decision, with no burden absent identified funding; add a citizen-effects test.
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Adapt procedures to population, resources, territory and risk; provide departmental public legal, technical, financial and digital expertise accessible to municipalities.
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Assess needs and workloads before changing frontline staffing and direct administrative gains first to operational units.
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Give staff regulated autonomy for routine cases, clear goals rather than multiple hierarchical approvals, with oversight and equal treatment.
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Assess managers against mission letters specifying goals, resources and deadlines, service quality, work conditions and simplification; stop repeated reorganisation without gains and require accountability.
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Publish an annual ministry/territorial dashboard on removed rules/documents, delays, costs and time saved.
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Assign audits to the Court of Accounts, an annual parliamentary debate and CNEN oversight, without a new simplification administration.
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Provide reform stages, indicators and correction mechanisms, with reports from staff/users/elected officials; abandon measures worsening service or merely shifting burdens.
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Reduce elected representatives and merge the Senate and CESE.
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Retain presidential initiation of national referendums and introduce local citizen referendums.
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