Practical guide to daring to get involved in local political life - Second edition

"Politics is not for me, it's too complicated, and it's useless! “How many times have we heard this phrase? Increasingly resistant to political apparatuses, too ossified and conformist, the French remain no less passionate about public affairs, and remain very attached to ideas such as transparency, participatory democracy and non-accumulation. But too often, they lack the keys to getting into politics themselves. This practical guide takes up a challenge: to fight citizen fatigue and make them want to run for local elections to take action . It helps to decipher, through simple and concrete explanations, the jargon of a municipal council or the administration, to decode the functioning of local political life and the "who does what" and to know the necessary steps (and the obstacles). In the second part, the author highlights five innovative and effective municipal initiatives that restore credibility to local political action. This new edition has been updated and enriched by Christian Proust in view of the 2020 municipal elections. What if the 2020 municipal elections were an opportunity for citizens to get involved and present themselves?