French Parliament Votes to Publish 'Gilets Jaunes' Grievance Notebooks

The unanimous resolution calls for digitizing and anonymizing 19,000 citizen notebooks from the 2019 Grand Debate for public access.

The French National Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to make the 2019 'cahiers de doléances' (grievance notebooks) from the Grand Debate publicly accessible.
These notebooks, created during the 'Gilets Jaunes' protests, contain over two million citizen contributions addressing social and economic concerns.
The government plans to digitize and anonymize the notebooks to protect personal information, with AI tools being tested to aid this process.
The resolution also aims to encourage research on the notebooks and make their content available on an open online platform.
This move fulfills a long-delayed promise from President Macron and is seen as a step to address public discontent and democratic transparency.