L'States General Association of Innovation expresses its more strong concern for the news released by the media in these hours about an agreement between the parties for the appointment of the Authorities, in close continuity with the practices of the past and far from what civil society and also various parliamentarians had asked for: a transparent appointment process, based on the assessment of skills and the presence of the indispensable requisites of independence and absence of conflict of interest. We had also joined in the request for a composition of the Council that equally expressed male and female presence.
The appeal to the parliamentarians involved, to the parties, to the chairmen of the commissions, to the President of the Senate and to the President of the Chamber is to prevent the logic of the past from winning. Also because, in the perception of many people who believed in a possible change in this affair, it would be the tombstone of the possibilities for renewal of this political class
Not surprisingly, the appointments were made according to the most sinister logic of subdivision and in defiance of any apparent criterion of competence. The umpteenth demonstration by our political class that they are not only incapable of thinking in terms of service, but that they don't even feel they need to pretend to do so. Public affairs are theirs. Point. And yes, they were not asked not to exercise their right/duty to make their choices, but only to make them transparently. At a time when our political forces have had to abdicate from exercising a government function due to manifest inadequacy, they could at least try to regain the voters' trust by operating in a slightly more transparent manner. I find myself wondering more and more whether it makes sense to continue to seek an interlocution with this political class on innovation.