Politics. Yellow Vests: Books of Grievances Open to the General Public

Six years after the end of the great debate following the Yellow Vest crisis, Emmanuel Macron announced that the books of grievances will be put online and that access to them within the Departmental Archives will be made easier. "Starting this Friday, anyone will be able to go to a Departmental Archives center or the National Archives without any particular restrictions to consult the books," the head of state confirmed to several media outlets on Tuesday, including newspapers belonging to the EBRA group, to which your newspaper belongs.

"I hope that by 2026, these notebooks will also be accessible online according to terms to be defined with the parliamentarians and elected officials that I know are mobilized on the subject," adds Emmanuel Macron , referring to the resolution adopted by Parliament a month ago , which calls for the publication of these notebooks of grievances.

Concretely, a decree published Wednesday allows for the lifting of administrative constraints so that this historical material is accessible to all, in open source . It is already available in the Departmental Archives, but there are still obstacles, particularly technical ones, for putting it online. The books of grievances have indeed taken very different forms: the French have written in the margins on the sides, have made crossings out. Artificial intelligence tools will make it possible to transcribe them to make them readable.

Under the aegis of the Ministry of Relations with Parliament, a working group will be set up with parliamentarians, elected representatives' associations, etc., to define the criteria, particularly for anonymization. Indeed, all personal data (addresses, telephone numbers, Vitale card numbers, etc.) left by those who wrote these grievance books must be erased.

"The great debate was an unprecedented and useful moment for the country," defends the President of the Republic. "Many French people took part in this great moment of democratic consultation. This movement of citizen mobilization has changed the life of the Nation. Everyone can see it in their daily lives." The Maisons France services in all cantons, the automatic payment of child support are part of it, as well as the revaluation of the activity bonus or the famous Macron bonus. "We have righted injustices and advanced liberty, equality, and fraternity," boasts Emmanuel Macron. Despite everything, there remain strong demands listed in the grievances that have not been implemented: this is the case of the solidarity income at source. A highly technical project on which government services continue to work.