Project Home - Direct Democracy Party

About this project

The current political system originates from countries such as England or France, where people elected members of Parliament and then these representatives went off to the capital city to sit in that Pariament and vote. The capital city was far away, communication with the electorate was rare so these representatives just came up with a program before the election and then, when elected, started working on it. The presumption is that they cannot ask the voters for everything they should do - a presumption based on a lack of communications, which is not the case in the age of the internet. Why does this system still persist? With our current means of communication, representatives of the people should do just that - represent the people. The people decide what has to be done - the representative does it. On every single issue, the people CAN decide, by an online micro-referendum. Every elected representative will a) announce in advance what decisions have to be made, b) publish all information that may be relevant to them, c) ask the electorate how the vote should go, and d) vote as the people say. We need 500 people (registered voters) to register a new party in Australia and try to do this.

How far the project has got

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Seeking new members

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What they want to know about you before you join

- why do you want to join the project?
- what do you want to do once you join?

What you have to agree as conditions to join

Looks like what you want to do?

You are in luck, the project wants new people.

Membership is not automatic, you have to convince the project admins that you will be an asset to it.